In conventional agriculture, synthetic chemical pesticides are used in various crops such as arable farming, vegetable ...

Soil health and service are central to this year’s Michigan Master Farmer award winners. Jim and Laurie Isley have been conservation advocates for more than 45 years while growing corn and soybeans ...

With over 16,000 homes and buildings damaged or destroyed in the Eaton and Palisades fires, the toxic ash produced by those ...

The PREPSOIL project, a pivotal initiative within the EU's Mission Soil framework, will host an engaging webinar on February 13, 2025, focusing on the importance of soil literacy among young people.

DDT soil pollution is still a major problem in many parts of the world. Researchers have developed a new method to manage ecological risks from the toxin by binding it with biochar. When they mixed ...

Our water treatment plants are not really designed to desalinate, so the salt level is very slowly building up in bodies of water like the Great Lakes.' ...

Imagine if we could find a way to capture the greenhouse gases that are warming our planet. One way to do this is carbon farming, a practice that has great potential as a green business model, ...

CLINTON, Mo. — Law firms Preuss Foster and Wagstaff and Cartmell were in Clinton, Missouri on Wednesday to help explain some ...

Is your vitamin supplement habit harming the planet? Discover the shocking truth about nutrient depletion, synthetic vitamins ...

The natural world is a finely-tuned balance of biotic (living) and abiotic (nonliving) components that shape our environments. Various biotic factors directly affect processes like population growth, ...

The USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in collaboration with the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL) and the ARS ...

ARS in collaboration with UNL and PDI have developed SSPOT, a digital tool that streamlines the process of selecting optimal soil sample locations.