Pounds and ounces? They’re pretty much consigned to a newborn’s first bounces. But acres remain the imperial system’s final holdout, five decades after Australia switched to the metric system. Charles ...

Most North Dakotans will remember the record spike in the price of wheat in 2008 and the accompanying world food shortage. Spring wheat futures that year pushed over $20 per bushel (it's less than a ...

Following a scolding from the World Bank, Peru launches ambitious reforestation project. Peru plans to reforest more than 10 million hectares (25 million acres) of logged and degraded forest over the ...

The governments of nine tropical countries recently made a joint pledge to recognize 160 million hectares, or 395 million ...