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Soil

California Gears Up for a New Composting Law to Cut Methane Emissions and Enrich Soil

Local governments will make compost more accessible for farmers, helping them retain water and fight drought. But it’s not clear that cities and private waste management companies can keep up with all of the green waste.

By Grace van Deelen

A worker with OC Waste & Recycling watches as a screening machine separates decomposed green waste at the new composting operation at a landfill in Irvine on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021. Credit: Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images

A Climate-Driven Decline of Tiny Dryland Lichens Could Have Big Global Impacts

By Bob Berwyn

A handful of soil in Lamont, California. Credit: Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Is a State Program to Foster Sustainable Farming Leaving Out Small-Scale Growers and Farmers of Color?

By Anne Marshall-Chalmers

Dan Duffy plants soybeans on April 23, 2020 near Dwight, Illinois. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Politicians Are Considering Paying Farmers to Store Carbon. But Some Environmental and Agriculture Groups Say It’s Greenwashing

By Georgina Gustin

A farm worker applies biochar in the field during a demonstration at a farm near Windhoek, capital of Namibia, on Oct. 8, 2020. Credit: Musa C Kaseke/Xinhua via Getty Images

Biochar Traps Water and Fixes Carbon in Soil, Helping the Climate. But It’s Expensive

By Jonathan Moens

Don't Sleep on Soil: Huge Carbon Sink is Leaking

By Max Ajl

Scientists Search for Carbon Solutions in Amazonia's 'Black Earth'

By Max Ajl

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