Tag: Soil health
Good flooding? Scientists use rice cultivation to preserve soil in Florida’s...
Jehangir Bhadha, University of Florida
Each summer, nearly 25,000 acres (10,000 hectares) of rice is cultivated in the Florida...
Dung beetle mothers protect their offspring from a warming world by...
Kimberly S. Sheldon, University of Tennessee
If the TV series “Dirty Jobs” covered animals as well as humans, it...
Fertilizer prices are soaring – and that’s an opportunity to promote...
Kathleen Merrigan, Arizona State University
Farmers are coping with a fertilizer crisis brought on by soaring fossil fuel prices...
It’s time to rethink the disrupted US food system from the...
David R. Montgomery, University of Washington; Jennifer J. Otten, University of Washington, and Sarah M. Collier, University of Washington
The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic...
Iowa’s farmers – and American eaters – need a national discussion...
Lisa Schulte Moore, Iowa State University
Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses bring the state a lot of political attention during presidential election cycles. But in my view,...
Restoring soil can help address climate change
David R. Montgomery, University of Washington
It’s time to take soil seriously. As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states with very high confidence in...
The dirt on soil loss from the Midwest floods
Jim Ippolito, Colorado State University and Mahdi Al-Kaisi, Iowa State University
As devastating images of the 2019 Midwest floods fade from view, an insidious and...
To restore our soils, feed the microbes
Matthew Wallenstein, Colorado State University
Our soils are in trouble. Over the past century, we’ve abused them with plowing, tilling and too much fertilizer.
What...
EXPLORING NATURE
Stone tool discovery in China shows people in East Asia were...
Ben Marwick, University of Washington
New technologies today often involve electronic devices that are smaller and smarter than before....
