Stretching from Montana to Missouri, the Missouri River basin is one of the country's largest river systems. Over the past ...

Regional climate variability plays a big role, but reduced forest cover and a rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide are also ...

A study finds that even in the most optimistic scenarios, grass-fed beef produces no less planet-warming carbon emissions ...

A peer-reviewed study published earlier this month estimated that 35 per cent of China’s cropland could disappear by 2100, even if the world delivers on its pledge to limit global warming under ...

But as swamps and lowlands were drained and forests cleared to make way for settlements and cropland, the bobcat population declined.By 1850, bobcats were all but gone, considered extirpated from ...

Recent findings from the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification have revealed that much of the world's farmland is getting drier and saltier. Specifically, 77% of arable land in the world ...

Most of the deforestation was on private land, and around 70% of the area cleared was converted to pasture, cropland and tree plantations. Stopping deforestation will require a combination of law ...

A total of 88 soil samples were collected from agricultural fields spanning the main cereal-producing areas of China, including 36 black soils in Northeast China, 22 fluvo-aquic soils in the North ...

The research team produced a comprehensive dataset with a thematic resolution of 27 types of land systems, including nine basic land types (cropland, forest, grassland, shrubland, wetland ...