Although agriculture is essential for human food ... but do not provide soils with many nutrients. Clay-rich soils, on the other hand, increase water holding capacity and provide many plant ...

These tiny soldiers can eat four times their own weight in organic waste – and turn it into sustainable fertiliser.

When European-American settlers first began ploughing in Iowa, they found the weather and local geology had combined this organic mulch with sand and silt to form a nutrient-rich type of soil ...

(Photo by: Richard ... [+] Hamilton Smith /Design Pics Editorial/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Regenerative agriculture aims to restore the health of soils through farming practices ...

For centuries, nutrient-rich animal manure has been used to enrich the soil and boost crop production. Traditionally, cow and ...

A worm burrows its way through the dark earth, ingesting particles of soil and expelling nutrient-rich casts in a constant ... the soil we rely on for agriculture, and it is remarkably fragile.