"We still use the terracing our ancestors taught us — it works even better now." By merging solar technology with traditional ...
The International Union for Conservation of Nature has adopted a landmark resolution on soil security. This marks the world's ...
Most of us weren’t around to see the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. But a mixture of drought and poor farming practices saw the topsoil of a half dozen states stripped away. Picture the dusty and desolate ...
A new initiative is underway in Karnataka to increase soil fertility and protection—focusing on sugarcane, but extendable to ...
William “Bill” Richards, a soil conservation pioneer who served as chief of USDA’s Soil Conservation Service (now the Natural Resources Conservation Service) from 1990-1993 under President George H.W.