Over the last two decades, my mother has devoted herself to creating a small homestead farm in upstate New York. I’ve had a front-row seat to the tribulations and glories of raising a large flock of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new international study argues that the world’s farms can be more than food factories. By changing how crops use and store ...

SACRAMENTO, California, August 18, 2008 (ENS) - Scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of California, Davis, are exploring a new style of farming in the Sacramento-San Joaquin ...

Imagine if we could find a way to capture the greenhouse gases that are warming our planet. One way to do this is carbon farming, a practice that has great potential as a green business model, ...

Farm groups are calling for stringent requirements for third-party verifiers of carbon farming projects, including knowledge of crops grown in the U.S. and specific soil types, as USDA seeks to ...

LONGVIEW, Texas (KLTV) - ‘Climate change’, ‘greenhouse gases’.. ‘carbon footprint’... all terms of concern used by those who seek a cleaner environment. But the solution could be a simple process that ...

At the Imperial Stock Ranch in central Oregon, dozens of sheep were grazing on a recent fall day. Rancher Jeanne Carver watched a mama sheep scramble up a hill with two lambs. “Look at that family ...

The Climate Shift Index (CSI), Climate Central’s daily temperature attribution system, applies the latest peer-reviewed methodology to map the influence of climate change on temperatures across the ...

The move to climate-smart farming practices has felt like a disorganized and chaotic movement of different opinions and attitudes toward an elusive and dynamic end point. That is — herding cats. The ...

L’ANSE, MI – The Nature Conservancy this week issued the first 211,000 carbon credits from its Michigamme Highlands project. Scientists with the nonprofit say they take extra measures to ensure the ...