Each year in early December, World Soil Day is celebrated around the world. To celebrate this annual event, the World Association of Soil and Water Conservation has pulled together a list of 17 soil moisture management concepts that can help you make soil and water a much better source of life.

In some conservative pockets of the U.S., farmers are embracing regenerative practices. Just don’t ask them to make it political.

In 2021, a team of researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst estimated that croplands in the Midwest were losing topsoil at a frightening rate — fast enough that it’s been eradicated completely from over one-third of the U.S. Corn Belt.