Odin iz starejshih akademicheskih zhurnalov, vy'hodit s yanvarya 1899 g. Publikuyutsya originalny'e stati i obzory', v kotory'h otrazhayutsya razlichny'e aspekty' teoreticheskih i e'ksperimentalny'h issledovanij genezisa, geografii, fiziki, himii, biologii, plodorodiya pochv, osveshhayutsya rezultaty' teoreticheskih i e'kologicheskih issledovanij v globalnom i regionalnom planah. Zhurnal yavlyaetsya reczenziruemy'm, perevoditsya na anglijskij yazy'k i vhodit v Perechen VAK, s 2010 g. – v sistemu RINCz. Perevodnaya versiya vklyuchena v bazy' danny'h: ASFA, Academic OneFile, Astrophysics Data System (ADS), BIOSIS, Biological Abstracts, Biology & Environmental Sciences, CAB Abstracts, CAB International, CSA, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), Current Contents/ Agriculture, EBSCO, EMBiology, Fluidex, Gale, GeoRef, Geobase, Global Health, Google Scholar, ISIS Current Bibliography of the History of Science, Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition, OCLC, ProQuest, SCImago, SCOPUS, Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch), Summon by ProQuest.