To a geologist or an engineer, soil is not only a medium which is built upon but also a medium to be built with. Stones, bricks and sand...

Soil in a garden, regardless of its size, can be very varied. Where there are trees it is often dry, and at a low point often wet. Old...

INTRODUCTION I pick the tree-lined streets in my cycle commutes across London. The air is cooler, the glare is less, and if there’s a...

When I started my project on the changing attitudes to soils in the UK conventional farming community eighteen months ago, I bought...

In recent years, the practice of burning garbage in open spaces has proliferated within neighbourhoods of Bengaluru. However, the...

On 27 and 28 January 2017, the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 923 “Threatened Order – Societies under Stress” at the University of...

Like a weevil in a flour jar, a mole in a hole, an earthworm in a pile of loam. This is how I felt during the inaugural Soil Care Network...

It is widely acknowledged that, in public engagement some science and technology topics are a slightly easier ‘sell’ than others. Where...

When I was a child, my grandfather grew intoxicatingly fragrant rose bushes, spaced one metre apart. I would follow him around the garden...