Gold mining in the Amazon removes so much water from the ground that it's too hot and dry for seedlings to survive.

Among the many gardening tools you need to start and manage a successful veggie or flower patch, a garden sieve can be useful for sifting stones and debris from your soil. These round or square ...

It's that time of year when you're constantly sowing seeds, so Costa builds a compost sieve to make his own seed-raising mix. There are all sorts of soil and compost sieves that you can buy or ...

Once the water is collected, it begins seeping into the highly porous soil. The soil particles act like a sieve, preventing larger particles from moving downward with the water. Simultaneous, ...

BANGALORE: It is a great gold rush out there. BANGALORE: It is a great gold rush out there. Under the heat of the Kolar sun, in the streets and on the outskirts of Kolar Gold Fields, the hunt for ...

Tino Carnevale builds a soil sieve that is useful for removing rocks and stones from soil, as well as soil from root vegetable crops.

consider the combo sieve sold by Fedco Seeds, shown here. The Soil and Seed Sieve Set — a 12-inch-diameter stainless steel frame with three interchangeable screens of various mesh sizes — can ...

Researchers at Michigan State University analyzed soil microbes near a mine fire that has been burning for more than 60 years and discovered that although microbial populations recovered after the ...