Farm the best and conserve the rest. That's an old saying among farmers. It's advice for how much land to harvest. The U.S. government agrees. It even pays farmers to keep some of their land fallow.

In the study of shifting cultivation systems, fallow duration is seen as the key determinant of vegetation and soil dynamics: long fallows renew soil fertility, biomass, and biodiversity. However, ...

During the summer fallow period of the sugarcane production cycle, glyphosate in conjunction with frequent tillage is used to destroy sugarcane regrowth and reduce perennial weed infestations. For ...

Secondary-growth forests are becoming more common, particularly in the tropics where old-growth forest is often cleared to make way for agriculture. A recent study shows that without careful ...

Between Black Friday and the Steam sale and all the games in your backlog, you might feel like you don't need any more interactive entertainment in your life, but I urge you to make some time for the ...

NATURAL History shares with History the doubtful honour of having not a few chapters which are, to use a well-known expression of Talleyrand, nothing more than “des fables convenues,”or which, in fact ...