The soil beneath our feet may look dull, but it is essential to all life on the planet. You might be amazed at what soil is ...

Norwegian scientist Kristian Morten Olesen has patented a process to mix nano-particles of clay with water and bind them to sand particles to condition desert soil - he has been working on Liquid ...

Soils are composed of a mixture of sand, silt, clay and organic matter. Both the clay and organic matter particles have a net negative charge. Thus, these negatively-charged soil particles will ...

Desert Control, in their words, plans to use nanoclay to take unproductive desert land “from sand to hope”. Using clay to improve soils is nothing new – farmers have been doing so for ...

Water will percolate better through soils with more sand or gravel than through soils with high clay content. You can estimate the percentage of the mineral components of your soil (sand, silt, and ...