We have recently transitioned into a world where more than half of the population lives in urban areas, and this transition is recorded directly underneath our feet — in our soil. But despite ...

New High-resolution Soil Maps Will Support On-farm Decision-making A new set of high-resolution soil and landscape maps for ...

New research conducted at Iowa State University led to the successful creation of a detailed Quaternary geological map for the Des Moines Lobe with a user-controlled level of scale, with the results ...

More farmers would benefit from soil maps, showing the soil types on their property said Horizons soil scientist Malcolm Todd recently. He was talking to about 25 farmers and rural professionals at a ...

A UB faculty member has devised an ingenious way to more quickly test soil in farm fields to make detailed maps of differing soil types. Those maps then can be used to design more efficient farming ...

Soil is the foundation of life on Earth and holds huge importance for agriculture. In addition to this, every other sector, like construction, also relies on different soil types to function ...

Making precision farming more affordable is the aim of a new project that could see farmers using accurate soil maps rather than spending money on soil testing. Precision farming involves dividing ...

As the impacts of climate change increasingly affect the daily lives of residents in several countries, including Brazil, the resilience of forests, especially tropical ones such as the Amazon, has ...