• The lurking menace of weeds
  Today more than a billion people in the world are hungry, the result of flawed policies mainly, but also of wars and revolutions and of natural hazards ...
• Measuring global soil changes
  Global change is increasingly affecting important terrestrial ecosystem functions such as the filtering and buffering capacity of soils, the supply of ...
• City of Miami will provide green job training through EPA brownfields grants
  EPA has selected the City of Miami, Fla. to receive $500,000 in grant funding to help train community members for jobs assessing and cleaning up brownfields ...
• Flooding and damage from 2008 Myanmar cyclone assessed
  Tropical cyclone Nargis made landfall in the Asian nation of Myanmar on May 2, 2008, causing the worst natural disaster in the country`s recorded history ...
• Soil phosphorus in an organic cropping system
  Phosphorus is a nonrenewable resource, raising concerns that agricultural practices may deplete reserves. (For one overview discussion of phosphorus, ...
• Aiming to lead the world in agricultural modelling
  The joint venture has been formed to further develop the Agricultural Production Systems Simulator (APSIM) – a computer simulation model which takes into ...
• Precompression stress in soils
  The precompression stress as a factor to assess the mechanical stability of soils is predictable by using pedotransfer functions. Over the past decades ...
• Study by ARS microbiologist in Texas shows farming practices’ benefits to soil quality
  The first evaluation of alternative farming practices—based on changes in soil microbes—in the Texas High Plains has been done by an Agricultural Research ...

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