near Mooresville, North Carolina. 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 ...

Soil carbon storage is a vital ecosystem service, resulting from interactions of ecological processes. Human activities affecting these processes can lead to carbon loss or improved storage. Aa Aa ...

Ethiopian livestock farmers have cultivated a mixture of legume and grass forages to improve soil quality and increase access to animal feed as ...

Wang Guiman (middle) conducts research on black soil protection in Lishu county, Jilin province. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] "During the process, we have gradually figured out some good ...

Wang Guiman (middle) conducts research on black soil protection in Lishu county ... they devised a unique model of conservation farming. Wang said that one key to conservation farming is to ...

The carbon-13 isotope signature helps quantify crop residue incorporation for soil stabilization and fertility enhancement. This technique can also assess the effects of conservation measures, such as ...

A worm burrows its way through the dark earth, ingesting particles of soil and expelling nutrient-rich casts in a constant forage for food. Charles Darwin described earthworms as one of the most ...

Soil is a mixture of tiny particles of rock, dead plants and animals, air and water. Different soils have different properties depending on their composition. Sandy soil is pale coloured and has ...

We can find soil in lots of different places because it's really important for almost all plants. Soil helps plants stay upright and it contains important substances to help them grow. In this ...

The Mahoning County SWCD will hold a Winter Conservation Billboard Design Contest where student-made posters depicting ...

In your own words, what do the Soil & Water Conservation District Supervisors do? The Soil & Water Conservation Supervisors ...