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CommunicationPublished on 26 August 2026

What Buried Underpants Reveal about the Soil

Five years ago, volunteers throughout Switzerland buried cotton underpants to measure soil-life activity. The results of this experiment now show that soil-life activity is above all influenced by type of land use.

‘Proof by Underpants’

‘Proof by Underpants’: A Citizen Science Project for researching soil life and soil quality.

WhatsApp channel for practitioners

Aimed at agricultural practitioners, the information is shared on our WhatsApp channels 'Agroscope_fr' (French) and 'Agroscope_de' (German).