The ability to acquire cheap, fertile land drove much of American history. Ordinary people — many of them recent immigrants — could obtain land on which to sustain families with very little more than ...

Researchers studying how species respond to repeated and rapid land cover changes say more focus needs to be placed on preserving the biodiversity value of human-dominated landscapes. With much of the ...

Gathered together, cropland would take up more than a fifth of the 48 contiguous states. Pasture and rangeland would cover most of the Western U.S., and all of the country’s cities and towns would fit ...

A new report from the IEA PVPS Task 13, titled “Dual Land Use for Agriculture and Solar Power Production: Overview and Performance of Agrivoltaic Systems,” lays out a compelling vision for how solar ...

An update to New Hanover's land use plan is nearing completion as the county copes with its rapid growth. Here's what could ...

Mongabay is publishing a new edition of the book, “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon,” in short installments and in three languages: Spanish, English and Portuguese. In addition to regulating land tenure, ...

Jim Abeles and Kat Topaz had a dream: to get out of the rat race and become farmers. But the couple, who both used to work in publishing and tech, didn’t realize how hard it would be to make a living ...