With changes in climate happening and predicted to worsen, earthworms face an uncertain future. This should concern everyone—our future is interlocked with that of earthworms.

Beneath the surface of our gardens, parks, and forests, an unseen army works day and night, sculpting the very ground we walk on. Earthworms, often overlooked and dismissed as simple garden ...

All Minnesota worms are invasive, but which ones do you need to worry about? An expert weighs in MINNEAPOLIS – Last week, the National Weather Service issued a "worm warning" in southern ...

I have an organic, no-till garden, but where did my earthworms go? Learn what to feed worms in your garden and how to increase earthworm population in soil.

Tens of thousands of species of earthworms are likely to be wriggling in the world’s soil, yet to be discovered by scientists – which will probably take more than 100 years to do. Earthworms ...

Earthworms cozy up with a mate inside tubes of slime to make cocoons full of baby worms.

On a rainy day, you'll often see lots of earthworms on sidewalks and roads. But what makes the worms crawl away from the safety of the soil when it's raining? Some people assume worms come to the ...

Environment How to do a health check on your garden’s vital earthworm population Earthworms are a great indicator of the state of soil. Science of gardening columnist Clare Wilson explains how ...

Nine-year-old Barnaby Domigan was playing in his family’s backyard in Christchurch, New Zealand, when he noticed something bobbing in the water of a nearby riverbed. He grabbed a stick, fished ...

Adventureland is continuing its Phantom Fall Fest with an earthworm-eating contest.

Charles Darwin liked an earthworm. What earthworms felt about Charles Darwin is less clear. For 40 years he studied them, thought about them and experimented on them. He exhaled on them to see if ...