Open Access Government

SPIN-FERT: Innovations for soil, impact for people and policies

The SPIN-FERT project focuses on improving soil health in horticultural crops while promoting peat-free substrates ...
JSTOR Daily

Soil Organic Carbon Content Decreases in Both Surface and Subsoil Mineral Horizons by Simulated Future Increases in Labile Carbon Inputs in a Temperate Coniferous Forest

Soils represent important pools of soil organic carbon (SOC) that can be greatly influenced by labile C inputs, which are expected to increase in future due to CO₂ enrichment of atmosphere and a ...
Food

Horizon Organic’s ‘unprecedented goal’ to be carbon positive by 2025 could pave path for industry

Recognizing that climate change is “the challenge of our lifetime” and that farming and livestock contribute nearly 10% of greenhouse gas emissions in the US, Horizon Organic is taking a three-prong ...
Iowa Public Radio

New Evidence Shows Fertile Soil Gone From Midwestern Farms

Farming has destroyed a lot of the rich soil of America's Midwestern prairie. A team of scientists just came up with a staggering new estimate for just how much has disappeared.. They say that the ...
Houston Public Media

New Evidence Shows Fertile Soil Gone From Midwestern Farms

Soil on hilltops in this photo is lighter in color, revealing a loss of fertile topsoil. (Evan Thaler for NPR) Farming has destroyed a lot of the rich soil of America's Midwestern prairie. A team of ...