At first glance, it sounds like a stunt, but in central London, visitors are being invited to do something surprisingly rooted in human history: taste soil. The Museum of Edible Earth, currently on ...

Mr. Jabr is the author of “Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life.” When my partner and I bought our home in Portland, Ore., four years ago, we immediately began designing our dream garden, ...

IDALOU, Texas — Long before “regenerative agriculture” became a buzzword, Jim Burnett had a vision. Today, his daughter Sarah Burnett is carrying that vision forward, running the natural soil-health ...

Under the dry, piercing heat of the Utah sun, Sasha Reed is growing plots of plants — and bacteria, lichen and fungi, too. But Reed is no farmer, and at first glance, her fields look to be mostly dirt ...

A line snaked along Wooster Street the other day, for a designer sample sale. A few doors down and one floor up, Bill Dilworth stood in a large room filled with two hundred and eighty thousand pounds ...

NASA doesn’t study just the stars and planets. It is also concerned with the soil beneath your feet. Studying the moisture in the top two inches of the soil from space with a satellite named SMAP can ...

For all the attention we pay to our human microbiome, we are still neglecting Earth’s microbes, according to a new scientific paper, and the consequences could be devastating for our planet.

Think twice before stepping on that crunchy top layer of soil. It may be a vital ecosystem—one that you can help protect. By Jude Coleman / Knowable Magazine Published Sep 3, 2024 8:00 AM EDT This ...