Amazing and reassuring research. There is a global network taking care of the planet. We just need to get out of the way.

'Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi form symbioses with ~70% of plant species, building hyphal networks that exchange nutrients for host-derived carbon. These tubular networks move ~1 billion metric tons of carbon per year into Earth’s soils... We estimate that global topsoils contain 1.10 × 1017 ± 0.13 × 1017 SD kilometers of living hyphae, weighing ~300 ± 60 SD megatons, ~4- to 6-fold the biomass of humans. Our uncertainty analyses identified undersampled ecosystems that require additional empirical attention.' - Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN)

#SPUN #fungi #mychorriza #ecology #Gaia #science #soilscience

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adu4373

A Soil–Plant–Atmosphere Continuum model coupled to CFD to simulate plant energy and water exchanges in heterogeneous microclimates
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2025.110906 via Agricultural and Forest Meteorology #PlantScience #SoilScience

by Joseph Vernier, Sylvain Edouard, Baptiste Amiot, Martin Ferrand, Andrée Tuzet, Eric Dupont, Céline Caruyer, Mike Van Iseghem, Axel Becker, Didier Combes, and Patrick Massin

Monoliths are perfect 3D models in soil science, but how are they excavated, transported, and prepared? To get from a vague idea to an "aha-moment", I decided to give it a try myself! Reflecting on the process, I found a matching paper on how crucial the process of creating visuals is in science.

📖 Evagorou et al. (2015): The role of visual representations in scientific practices. Int J STEM Ed. DOI: 10.1186/s40594-015-0024-x

#SoilScience #Bodenkunde #SciComm #STEM

2 mm or less

https://slrpnk.net/post/38957839

RE: https://halo.nu/@theguardian_us_environment/116652601051975963

"But flavour was the collateral damage. The natural complexity of soil – the substance Barber says is 'the single best predictor of how food will taste' – was devastated by chemical fertilisers which in less than a century have contributed to the degradation of more than a third of the world’s soil, the UN estimates."

When soil is an inert substrate instead of a partnered system in cultivation, bland food is what you get.

#permaculture #SoilScience #RegenerativeAgriculture

LandPKS Soil ID 1.4.6 enables offline site creation! This means that wherever you are—from an urban garden, to a field excursion in Utah, to a rural farm in South Sudan—you’ll be able to create a site and gather data about the land and soil.

#soil #soilscience #openSource

https://landpks.terraso.org/collect-soil-data-anywhere-in-the-world-with-landpks-soil-id-1-4-6/