Agriculture

In north Brazil, the combined effects of a hydroelectric dam and earth-shifting livestock have altered the landscape — and upended peoples’ lives.

Soil’s microbial communities keep it healthy, just like the one in our guts. But new research finds we’re not doing a good enough job of protecting it.

Subsidized water cultivated the West, but this required becoming increasingly profligate with the region’s scarcest resource.

Humble ponds have a key role to play in fighting climate change and aiding conservation — but only if we protect them.

Human activities have imperiled our waterways — along with almost one-third of freshwater fish and many other aquatic species.

Don’t miss these environmental news stories about innovative laws, rising renewables and a “climate king.”

Lost in much of the coverage of the region’s water woes is the ecological crisis caused by prolonged drought, climate warming and development.

We know more than ever about the abundance of life in the soil. Now we have to step up to save it.

Experts say previous outbreaks should have taught us how to avoid new ones, like the one that’s killing millions of birds right now.

Saving these privately owned grasslands is the key to protecting endangered birds and other unique biodiversity.