Secretary of Health and Human Services nominee Robert F Kennedy Jr explains at his Senate Finance Committee confirmation ...

His mission to address the problems of land depletion was spurred on by the 1909 Bureau of Soils announcement, “The soil is the one indestructible, immutable asset that the nation possesses.

When European-American settlers first began ploughing in Iowa, they found the weather and local geology had combined this organic mulch with sand and silt to form a nutrient-rich type of soil ...

Only in recent history has the understanding of soil productivity been tied to SOM levels, with the depletion of SOM stocks often leading to large-scale impacts on whole ecosystems as well as the ...

A man who would look after the budget and military strategy of one of the world's biggest empires devoted pages to the different patches of soil on a farm, and discussed planting with the same ...

The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) has announced major investment plans which aim to ...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is pushing for the judicious use of nitrogen to prevent soil degradation and nutrient depletion and halt global warming. FAO stressed ...