Biochar from rice straw may cut heavy metal contamination risks in rice
Rice straw is a cornerstone of sustainable rice farming—returned to fields to recycle nutrients and avoid open burning. But a...
Gideon R. reports on agriculture and plant science, covering crop biology, plant genetics, soil systems, farm technology, and food production research.
Rice straw is a cornerstone of sustainable rice farming—returned to fields to recycle nutrients and avoid open burning. But a...
Healthy soils aren’t just an environmental goal—they’re the foundation of stable crop yields. Yet soil degradation is accelerating in many...
Agricultural soils are rarely exposed to just one stressor at a time, yet most risk assessments still evaluate pollutants in...
A new economic analysis from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the Illinois Soybean Association warns that a statewide ban...
Hosted by the University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, the Simpson Centre for Food & Agricultural Policy, the Canadian...
Federal protection of national forest “roadless areas” may be far more important to clean drinking water than many people realize,...
Precolonial societies in Brazil’s Cerrado—a vast tropical savanna—have long posed a puzzle: did people survive mainly through mobile hunting and...
A major new multimodel ensemble (MME) study assesses how global agriculture could look by 2050 under a coordinated “food systems...
Shifting global food systems toward healthier and more sustainable diets is increasingly urgent. A 2025 EAT–Lancet Commission assessment suggests that...
A new Nature analysis suggests that a rapid shift toward healthier diets—combined with higher farm productivity and a halving of...
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