Sustainable inputs and conservation practices improve soil health. (Natural Resources Conservation Service photo) Editor’s note: This is the fourth installment of a five-part series, “Getting Grounded ...

David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...

Current protected areas only poorly cover the places most relevant for conserving soil ecological values. To assess global hotspots for preserving soil ecological values, an international team of ...

Rob Black emphasized soil conservation both at home and abroad, when speaking to the Canadian Seed Growers Association ...

Ninety years ago this month, in the depths of the Great Depression, Congress created a new agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture to safeguard rural prosperity for future generations: The ...

Researchers are discovering that listening to the soil can be a way to understand biodiversity belowground without having to overturn every bit of the land. Studies have shown that soils of restored ...

Peter C. de Ruiter is at Biometris, Wageningen University, 6708 PB Wageningen, the Netherlands, and at the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, 1090 GE Amsterdam ...

Bruce Copeland, an attorney and farmer who works land north of Carthage on Civil War Road, said he has used Soil and Water Conservation District programs to replant his fields with warm-season ...

Researchers found more than 90 per cent of the conventionally farmed soils in their global study were thinning, and 16 per cent had lifespans of less than a century. These rapidly thinning soils were ...

A Texas A&M AgriLife initiative pays state farmers to adopt practices like cover crops, reduced tillage, and nutrient ...

Missouri funds state parks and conservation with a 0.1% sales tax. Voters will be asked to reauthorize it in August.