But gardening has grown on me, and now I know not to use the word “dirt.” “We refer to it as soil, because dirt is a four-letter word,” says Tony Provin, Ph.D., a professor and soil chemist at Texas A ...

Scientists at the University of Idaho in Moscow study "deep soil" to see how climate change, drought and changes in gas ...

Soil is important to each of us in our everyday lives, but too often we think about it as just dirt! Soil is the special link between plants and humans. It feeds us, captures carbon and provides a ...

Today, we move on to soil structure. Structure of the soil refers to type of aggregation (the way the particle size is clumped together) and thus also depicts porosity (pore space) in your soil. Soil ...