climate change

The federal Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 includes hundreds of billions of dollars in spending for climate protection and renewable energy investment.

The USDA’s COMET-Farm tool is increasingly useful to farms choosing to implement regenerative practices such as planting perennials and cover crops, and reducing tillage, to better verify their on-farm carbon capture to sell credits on the emerging carbon marketplace.

The monumental task of mitigating climate change and transforming agricultural practices at a scale is anything but simple. Getting a carbon market to a stable and verifiable condition is just one of the many challenges.

Peoria is getting a little warmer and a little wetter, according to new averages used to monitor climate change.

Experts predict that Great Lakes water levels will rise for a fifth consecutive year. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says all five lakes should reach…

Researchers with the University of Illinois’ crop research project - Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency, or RIPE for short – recently invited…

The coats of around 20 animal species go from brown in the summer to white in the winter. Researchers are studying whether climate change is causing...

A group of central Illinois Democrats as well as some in agriculture and academics are trying to rally around President Obama's action last month on…