A study reveals how invasive worms are disrupting forests in the northern United States and changing key soils.

Seeing earthworms in soil is usually a good thing. You can encourage them with food scraps, but whether that includes tea ...

Jumping” and “worm” are two words that don’t seem like they should go together. Just imagining such a thing is enough to ...

To see just how prevalent alien earthworm species are, the Stanford team analyzed worm records from 1891to 2021 (yes, worm records are a thing), combined that with statistics from the interception of ...

For many years, farmers and gardeners prioritized the chemical and physical properties of soils in which plants were grown over the biological properties of these soils. Thankfully, we have learned ...

Researchers have discovered two new earthworm species in Silent Valley, highlighting its biodiversity significance in the ...

Researchers have discovered two new species of earthworms hiding beneath the soil of the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspots. The discovery, made within the Silent Valley National Park in Palakkad, ...

Earthworms may be helpful in a compost heap or in the soil of a vegetable garden. But they are a destructive force in Minnesota’s hardwood forests – chomping up entire layers of the forest floor and ...