Grazing livestock and farming over the past 4000 years have rapidly accelerated the rate of soil loss in the Alps, ...

Soil scientists have been advocating the same practices, sometimes called regenerative agriculture, for years because they support the biological mechanisms needed for healthy soil.

Right now, there’s pretty much no good way for a farmer to know how much carbon they’re storing on their land. Current techniques for sampling soil and measuring carbon levels are really ...

How soil's fertility can be restored echoes the question of how many times the same documentary field can be tilled in this latest paean to the virtues of organic farming. Plus Icon Film Plus Icon TV ...

Midwestern soil is eroding at 10 to 1,000 times greater than it was before modern agriculture. Advocates say more sustainability is need. Skip to content. Grist home.

Thistle compiled data from the Farm Service Agency to examine how enrollment in the Conservation Reserve Program has changed over time and why participation has declined in recent years.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Agriculture last year announced it would be investing $10 million to better monitor and measure soil’s carbon sequestration under its Conservation Reserve Program.

In 2017, Regeneration International defined ‘Regenerative Agriculture’ as “farming and grazing practices that, among other benefits, reverse climate change by rebuilding soil organic matter ...

Curbing soil degradation is critical to the food security and ecological sustainability of the Caribbean— yet unsustainable land management practices, coupled with the pressures of climate ...