Carbon sequestration, infrastructure rehabilitation, brownfields clean-up, hazardous waste
disposal, water resources protection and global warming—these twenty-first century …

Consideration of soil as a living ecosystem offers the potential for innovative and sustainable
solutions to geotechnical problems. This is a new paradigm for many in geotechnical …

New, exciting opportunities for utilizing biological processes to modify the engineering
properties of the subsurface (eg strength, stiffness, permeability) have recently emerged …

Soil provides multiple, diverse functions, with these underpinning both planetary and human
health. For planetary health, soil contributes to multiple critical processes, including through …

The term 'soil'refers to the weathered and fragmented outer layer of our planet's land
surfaces. Formed initially through the physical disintegration and chemical alteration of rocks …

Bio‐mediated soil improvement involves the usage of microbes to improve soil engineering
performance through a series of bio‐geochemical processes. In particular, Microbially …

Interest in the quality and health of soil has been stimulated by recent awareness that soil is
vital to both production of food and fiber and global ecosystems function. Soil health, or …

The holistic study of soils requires an interdisciplinary approach involving biologists,
chemists, geologists, and physicists, amongst others, something that has been true from the …

This special issue provides an assessment of the contribution of soils to Nature's
Contributions to People (NCP). Here, we combine this assessment and previously published …

The study of soil is a mature science, whereas related practical methods of regenerative
agriculture and permaculture are not. However, despite a paucity of detailed peer reviewed …