Soil brings together all four spheres of physical geography, and understanding soil composition is kind of like baking! So in today's episode, we're going to show you how to create the perfect soil cake, examine its different soil...

USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service in Delaware and its partners are helping farmers take care of their soil and the environment. Jacob Urian of the Kent Conservation District demonstrates how to conduct a Pre-Side Dressing...

This video highlights the importance of land and soil as limited natural resources. It emphasizes how the growing human population and increasing land use for various purposes pose a concern. This video is part of the 10-part series,...

Steve Stich, Deputy Manager for Commercial Crew, discusses how we are once again launching astronauts from American soil. Stich talks about the astronauts flying in the commercial crew spacecrafts, the upcoming test missions, and the...

How, when, and where wildfires happen, with a focus on safety. Wildfires need fuel and heat, so they can happen in any dry place. They are a natural part of Earth and they do have benefits. Most are caused by human activity. Wildfires...

A family farm in Bel Air, Maryland since 1726 is partnering with USDA's Natural Resources Conservation service to improve soil health and manage farm nutrients.

The Amazon rainforest is being cut down for resources and land at a rapid rate. Learn how alternative farming methods, incentives to cut carbon emissions and protected reserves are helping to conserve the rainforest from further harm....

In this video Paul Andersen explains how humans are impacting the Earth through farming, mining, pollution and climate change. According to the NGSS wise management can reduce impacts on the planet. This will become more important as...

Tiny creatures called rotifers seem to have no problem continuing their lives after waking from a refreshing 24,000-year nap. And DNA samples from goats that lived 30,000 years ago tell us a bit about how humans were managing them back...

Massive amounts of dust manage to travel all the way across the ocean, creating some powerful and surprising global effects!

Water. It's an essential building block of life, constantly moving in a hydrologic cycle that flows in a continuous loop above, across and even below the Earth's surface. But water is also constantly moving through another cycle --...

Scientists come up with lots of possible reasons why rain triggers earthworms mysterious behavior: popping out of the soil and getting stranded on the ground. Hosted by: Olivia Gordon ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on