Tree planting is one of the most popular fixes for the climate crisis. Trees’ ability to store carbon dioxide and prevent its release into the atmosphere — and they are natural! — but they may not be ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Forest conservation and restoration could make a major contribution to tackling the ...

Take a road trip through the Midwest during the growing season, and it feels like you’re moving through a sea of corn and soybeans grown largely for livestock feed or ethanol. But now, low grain ...

Raising a single crop has drawbacks as it increases the risk of disease and pest outbreaks because monocultures lack other plant and animal species that limit the spread of disease and control pests ...

LAWRENCE — A study appearing in Nature Communications based on field and greenhouse experiments at the University of Kansas shows how a boost in agricultural yield comes from planting diverse crops ...

(1) Austin (1982) has proposed a method for predicting relative mixture performance from relative monoculture performance. In this paper I evaluate the method of Austin using data from experiments on ...

Vol. 445, No. 1/2, Part I: Special Issue Quantitative and Mechanistic Insights into the Key Process in the Rhizodeposited Carbon Stabilization, Transformation and Utilization of Carbon, Nitrogen and ...