How did we get to a place where we think of soil as dirt? Soils are buzzing with life, criss-crossed with a hard-to-fathom ...

The National Park Service wanted to bring thousands of pounds of soil up to the peak to help save the park’s most imperiled ecosystem, and managers had determined that the best way to do it was for us ...

Get the dirt on the world beneath your feet during the “Dirt-O-Rama: Intriguing Tales from the Underground” summer exhibition at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, running June 2-Oct. 14.

Curious about anything to do with plants and bugs, I decide to dig a little deeper and “get the dirt” on winter soil. Scientific research reveals that soil is extremely dynamic.