Forest soil stores water, carbon and nutrients for trees and also provides a habitat for living organisms. When managing ...

Frequent forest fires and agricultural expansion are degrading soil health in the southern Brazilian Amazon. This results in ...

At the microscopic level, soil from Germany’s Black Forest is a fantastical realm—one that’s mirrored in wooded ecosystems worldwide. The newfound species seen here is one of about 1,300 ...

The results are clear: soil water recharge is significantly higher in winter than in summer because the evaporation losses are lower and there is a lack of forest canopy cover. The forest floor ...

The results are clear: soil water recharge is significantly higher in winter than in summer because the evaporation losses are lower and there is a lack of forest canopy cover. The forest floor ...

The efforts of these insects allow them to break down large amounts of animal waste, return nutrients to the soil, eliminate bacteria and other pathogens, and aerate the forest floor. In addition ...

In a healthy forest, the forest floor is covered with vegetation and dead plant material. Animals like worms aerate the top layer of soil as they burrow through it, making it permeable and able to ...

You don’t see people out there raking or digging up the forest floor,” Martineau says. “We layered it with compost, then soil, then compost, then mulch. Mother Nature doesn’t compost ...

Gautier explained that for millions of years, Mother Nature had the right idea when animals shed their fur, birds molted feathers, and humanity shed hair, it fell to the forest floor, soil took it ...