U.K. and Australian ecologists have used audio technology to record different types of sounds in the soils of a degraded and restored forest to indicate the health of ecosystems. Non-invasive acoustic ...

The first time that Marcus Maeder stuck a noise sensor into the ground, it was on a whim. A sound artist and an acoustic ecologist, he was sitting in a mountain meadow and pushed a special microphone ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Researchers are discovering that listening to the soil can be a way to understand biodiversity belowground without having to overturn every bit of ...

Depending on its physical and chemical properties, soil possesses electrical conductivity. For example, if a batch contains more clay than it does sand, its conductivity is about ten times greater ...

At the same time that demand for food is soaring along with the world's population, the soil's ability to sustain and enhance agricultural productivity is becoming increasingly diminished and ...

In a race against time, scientists are exploring new ways to restore natural systems. Alongside traditional methods such as planting trees, reducing pollution and reintroducing native species, a ...

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Soil is one of our most precious resources. Ecoacoustics, or the study of environmental sounds, has been around for a century, but it has only recently been applied to understanding soils. This ...