article on soils remains as relevant today as it was more than 30 years ago. We lavish attention on our food, we want to know where it came from, who grew it, and whether it is “conventional” or ...

For hundreds of years, parts of sub-Saharan Africa have suffered from poor soil. Weather, shifting populations, and slash-and-burn practices have left wide swaths of land relatively useless for ...

The establishment of Soil Taxonomy as the official United States system of soil classification introduced a number of innovative concepts of significance to soil classification, soil survey, and soil ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Chris S. Renschler, Ph.D., associate professor of geography at the University at Buffalo has been awarded the 2007 Young Scholar Award from the Soil and Water Management and ...

Earth is running out of, well, earth. Scientists say that our planet will run out of topsoil in just 60 years – and since we can’t live without dirt, soil erosion is looming as the biggest threat to ...