A years-long legal battle between a generational ranching farm in eastern Washington and state regulators has caught the eye of the nation's top agricultural official. U.S. Department of Agriculture ...

Organic agriculture is an increasingly popular management approach, embraced by growers and consumers alike for its potential ...

As China’s most important grain-producing region, Northeast China plays a vital role in safeguarding national food security.

Abra Lee’s speech next Sunday will bring something new to the audience at Rooted in Place—an understanding that the art and ...

In a new study published in Global Change Biology, Prof. Zhang Yuanming's team from the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and ...

A new study has yielded clues about when dormant microscopic bacteria and fungi in soil "wake up" and colonize roots, which ...

Researchers discovered that soil microbes in Kansas carry drought “memories” that affect how plants grow and survive. Native plants showed stronger responses to these microbial legacies than crops ...

University of Kansas research is looking at how soils are influenced by microbes that have evolved in response to a specific ...

Altadena, California — Armed with a spoon and sandwich bags, Gilien Silsby, a lifelong resident of Altadena, California, a Los Angeles suburb, digs up some of the land she's called home for decades to ...

In a rare move, all surface water rights holders in the Yakima River Basin will see their water curtailed due to lack of available water. The Washington Department of Ecology is ordering a halt to ...

Long Island’s largest and most controversial zoo is set to close its doors and ship all its animals off to rescue facilities, as the sanctuary prepares to “wind down” by early next year, officials ...

Tropical forests exchange more CO2 with the atmosphere than any other terrestrial biome, meaning that even a relatively small shift in the balance of carbon uptake and release there could have a big ...