Mother Nature is the ultimate boss on the prairie — and the boss seems pretty agitated these days. Weather events are more frequent, more extreme, and harder to predict than they used to be. 

Soil is the largest terrestrial carbon pool, accounting for over three times more carbon than all plants on earth.

The Republic of South Africa is both the 25th largest in area and the 25th most populous country, with approximately 53 million inhabitants.

A funding crisis seems increasingly probable. But would that lead to the IMF negotiating necessary policy reforms?

Every meal you eat now costs the planet 10 kilos in lost topsoil.

For years, conventional wisdom has held that roots don't grow as deep in hard soil because it's just too difficult for them to physically push through it. But our new research has unearthed another reason: their growth is controlled by a biological signal which can be "switched off", enabling them to punch through compacted earth. It's a discovery that could help crops to grow in even the most damaged of soils.