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Soil Carbon: Complexity, Context + A Way Forward
Researchers highlight agreements and uncertainties around soil carbon and argue that “action can happen despite unanswered scientific questions.”
Story type: TNC Science Brief
Nature Improves Crop Production
New study shows that promoting nature around farm fields is essential to ensuring and maintaining abundant and stable food production.
Story type: TNC Science Brief
Fields on Fire: Can Agricultural Alternatives Mean Cleaner Air in India?
Agriculture burning contributes significantly to air pollution in India, a country with some of the least healthy air in the […]
Story type: TNC Science Brief
Experimenting with Water Funds + Behavior Change
Can targeted, farm-level recommendations spark adoption at the scale needed to ensure the city of Nairobi a sustainable water supply? TNC scientists are experimenting to find out.
Dirt to Soil: A Farmer’s Tell-all Puts Soil First
North Dakota farmer Gabe Brown’s journey to regenerative agriculture.
Like to Eat? Then You Should Care About Biodiversity
Farming and ranching can be converted from a global environmental problem into the leading edge of an effort to avert looming biological disaster – and farmers themselves can become more productive and profitable.
Sharing Water: How I Met the MacGyvers of Water Use
Conservationists at The Nature Conservancy and USFS are improving spring boxes so that ranchers can easily “turn off the faucet” when they’re not using it. Sometimes we can meet everyone’s needs with a little PVC pipe and a lot of ingenuity.
Bumper-Crop Birds: Pop-Up Wetlands Are a Success in California
By partnering with rice farmers in California, the Conservancy is transforming fields into pop-up wetlands for migrant shorebirds, yielding the largest average shorebird densities ever reported for agriculture in the region.
Scaling Sustainable Agriculture
To feed the world in 2050, we will need to grow roughly 40% more food. To be sustainable, we need our farms to survive and keep producing food, while also protecting the environment that we rely on to sustain us all.
The Mountain Lion in the Window
The subject of the message was: OMG! Mountain Lion Kitten in Window Well!!!! And really, it just got more interesting from there.
Tracing the Wild Origins of the Domestic Turkey
What are the wild origins of our domestic turkey – and who did the domesticating? It’s a remarkable story that includes a lost turkey subspecies.
Can We End Hunger and Protect the Forest in Africa?
Expanding agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa often comes at the expense of forests. Can this challenge be resolved?
