Are Australia’s carbon farming schemes just hot air? Hardly – forests are regrowing almost everywhere

Critics have taken aim at an Australian scheme meant to encourage forest regrowth. But independent assessments show the ...
Los Angeles Times

How farming can turn carbon from a climate threat into an asset

Over the last two decades, my mother has devoted herself to creating a small homestead farm in upstate New York. I’ve had a front-row seat to the tribulations and glories of raising a large flock of ...
Earth.com

Earth’s richest farm soils are losing carbon, but warming may trigger a strange reversal

The world's most fertile soils are losing carbon, but global warming could drive an unexpected large-scale recovery in the ...
OPB

How ‘carbon farming’ could help Oregon reach its climate goals

Cassandra Profita / OPB Rancher Jeanne Carver threw her leg over a fence lining her property in Central Oregon. “Let me go first,” she said. “It’s snake season.” Watching for rattlesnakes, she led the ...
Marketplace

Ranchers, farmers look to ‘carbon farming’ as a way to diversify, and help the climate

At the Imperial Stock Ranch in central Oregon, dozens of sheep were grazing on a recent fall day. Rancher Jeanne Carver watched a mama sheep scramble up a hill with two lambs. “Look at that family ...
Wired

The Rise of the Carbon Farmer

Patrick Holden strolls across the field, pausing from time to time to bend and point out a bumblebee, or a white butterfly, or a dung beetle. A wide expanse of blue sky stretches above. Beneath, ...
Woodland Daily Democrat

Yolo Carbon Farm Partnership to host free two-part series about carbon farm planning

The Yolo Carbon Farm Partnership is hosting a two-part Carbon Farming workshop series to showcase on-farm strategies to improve soil health and increase the amount of carbon stored in plants and soil.
MLive

Carbon ‘farming’ begins in remote Up North Michigan forest

L’ANSE, MI – The Nature Conservancy this week issued the first 211,000 carbon credits from its Michigamme Highlands project. Scientists with the nonprofit say they take extra measures to ensure the ...
AgWeb

Chasing Dollars (or Pennies) With Carbon Farming

The move to climate-smart farming practices has felt like a disorganized and chaotic movement of different opinions and attitudes toward an elusive and dynamic end point. That is — herding cats. The ...
Modern Farmer

Sequestering Carbon Is Not Just A Science But An Art, Too

Brooke Singer may laugh when she calls herself “a self-taught soil nerd,” but she is quite serious. When Singer looks at soil, she sees something beyond just the microbes, minerals and organic matter ...
The Nation Newspaper

Climate change: Carbon farming offers fresh sustainability vista

In Europe and other parts of the world hit by climate change in the agriculture sector, carbon farming, which refers to agricultural practices focused on sequestering carbon dioxide from the ...