Tennessee farmer Matt Griggs joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about farming. How do farmers keep track ...

Agricultural soils now hold around 23 times more microplastics than oceans. This stark statistic, reported in a recent ...

By swapping textbooks for trash art and superheroes for real-life action, Hui turns climate education into a hands-on mission ...

Flaxseeds have soluble and insoluble fiber, with soluble fiber being the prebiotic, acting as the food to fuel the gut ...

How sensitively does organic carbon stored in soils react to changes in temperature and humidity? This question is central to ...

Mariangela Hungria, a microbiologist in Brazil, spent decades looking for bacteria in the soil that could act like fertilizer, boosting farmers' harvests. But she faced a lot of skepticism.

A team of researchers investigated a sequence of coastal dunes of different ages (from 0-700,000 years old) in Cooloola National Park near Rainbow Beach to understand how soil microorganisms coped ...

Elevation-induced changes in temperature, moisture, and nutrients shape not just the physical landscape but also the microbial ecosystems beneath the soil. Microorganisms, essential for nutrient ...

We thank the National Key Research and Development Program (No. 2024FYA1509600, W.W.), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant 21925403, W.W.; Grant 22404075, R.-C.X.), the Natural ...

This review systematically summarizes the key mechanisms of lignocellulose degradation by ruminant gastrointestinal microorganisms, focusing on the synergistic roles of rumen and hindgut (including ...

Researchers at Umeå University, Sweden, and Michigan State University, U.S., have discovered a type of molecule that can kill chlamydia bacteria, but spare bacteria that are important for health.

"This new species seems to be a bridge, an early branch within the Ca. Electrothrix clade, which suggests it could provide new insights into how these bacteria evolved and how they might function in ...