All Soil Science

Climate change is boosting soil-based pathogen development warns report
Added: 28 Jun 2025
Global warming is enhancing the presence of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in soil microbes, wa…

Critical alternatives
Added: 27 May 2025
As the supply of rare earth elements becomes an increasing geopolitical issue, Akseli Mansikkamäki …

Study unearths role of fertilisers in crop metals uptake
Added: 9 May 2025
Animal based fertilisers ensure agriculture and water systems are less exposed to pollutants than t…

Sustainable sensor guards plant health and feeds the soil
Added: 1 Apr 2025
It sounds like an environmentalist’s dream: technology that helps boost crop yields and then compos…

Sea-savvy tech provides longest ever study of destructive water currents
Added: 16 Dec 2024
Durham University scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery in marine geoscience, using seabe…

Five years beavering bears water for ecologists
Added: 1 Apr 2024
An East Anglian project to reintroduce beavers to the region claims the animals have contributed to…

‘Potash price rise undermines global food security’ warning
Added: 25 Feb 2024
Rising prices for potash across the globe are creating a threat to the level of global food securit…

Satellite offers a flood warning breakthrough
Added: 14 Jan 2024
Satellite video offers an enhanced means to monitor river flow and provide earlier and more compreh…

Plants and particles win Turlings and Shchutska top Swiss science awards
Added: 17 Sep 2023
Biologist Ted Turlings and physicist Lesya Shchutska are this year’s winners of the the two highest…

UEA coastal erosion project will test new tech’s predictive powers
Added: 13 Aug 2023
One of the counties most at risk from coastal erosion will provide the location for a technological…

Call for targeted approach to boost bird-friendly farming
Added: 8 Jan 2023
Threatened farmland bird species would benefit from a more strategic investment of resources rather…

Tech challenges hinder mountain water data gathering
Added: 7 Nov 2022
Global failure to make better use of the latest monitoring technologies for high altitude water dat…

Technological research and development in agritech
Added: 4 Mar 2022
It is increasingly important for agricultural research to raise awareness of conditions leading to …

Electron diffraction: A technique suggesting radically new things
Added: 11 Jan 2022
Crystallography mainly relies on diffraction techniques and the most recent of them, electron diffr…

Monitoring DNA in air samples could revolutionise biomonitoring
Added: 10 Jan 2022
DNA from air could revolutionise the way we measure animal biodiversity, say scientists. Two resear…

Climate change knowledge cooperative provides simplified research summaries
Added: 23 Dec 2021
The Climate Change Knowledge Cooperative provides easy to understand research summaries to help eve…

Understanding powder flow in materials testing
Added: 14 Oct 2021
Tapped density methods are a popular choice for assessing powder flow in materials laboratory testi…

Greening the lab: first net zero mass spectrometer launched
Added: 5 Oct 2021
As part of an initiative to permanently remove CO₂ emissions associated with the manufacture and su…

Demystifying plant biostimulants for selection based on crop growing goals
Added: 16 Jul 2021
Plant biostimulants have now been categorised by into eight classes based on their modes of action.…

UKRI funding to bring the public into the heart of five research projects
Added: 27 May 2021
UK Research and Innovation is encouraging people from across the UK to actively contribute to five …
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