Some researchers are also using sounds to identify distinct species in the soil, which could open up lots of possibilities for both pest management and wildlife conservation. See All Key Ideas For ...

Despite repeated warnings from experts, soil continues to erode at an alarming pace. Soil health advocates say it's past time ...

In the data, soils managed with conservation strategies tended to have longer lifespans, and in some cases these practices promoted soil thickening. Only seven per cent of soil under conservation ...

Dr. Hugh Hammond Bennett (left) first Chief of the Soil Conservation Service and Mr. Roach Stewart (Duke Power Co.) In the early years of the 1930s, the extent of the damage inflicted on the ...

Ninety years ago this month, in the depths of the Great Depression, Congress created a new agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture to safeguard rural prosperity for future generations ...

SOIL conservation is as old as, and might indeed be regarded as synonymous with, agriculture. Ancient China, India and Persia knew about it, but during the last century, while great advances have ...

The act, which established the Soil Conservation Service, sought to “control floods, prevent impairment of reservoirs and maintain the navigability of rivers and harbors, protect public health ...

Yet soil conservation wasn't a popular practice as erosion continued to be a problem in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Scientists W. J. McGee and N. S. Shaler wrote about the ...

Atreya said gaining specific insight into the amount of fertilizer used in an area or how healthy that soil is overall is crucial for both improving agricultural supply and potentially slowing the ...