ANKENY, Iowa, Aug. 6 -- The Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, a journal of natural resource conservation research, practice, policy and perspectives from the Soil and Water Conservation Society, published research articles, including the following topics, in its July/August 2020 edition: Features: * The diversity of erosion control products and implications for wildlife entanglement * Stimulating soil health within Nebraska's Natural Resources Districts * Riparian catchments: A landsca  more

NEW YORK, Aug. 5 -- The National Audubon Society issued the following news on Aug. 4: This weekend, nearly 100 students came together at the inaugural Youth Environmental Summit (YES 2020) hosted by the National Audubon Society and the American Conservation Coalition Campus, with select sessions publicly livestreamed on social media reaching hundreds of thousands more. Students registered from 36 states, ranging from Florida and Pennsylvania to Nebraska and California, joined the two-day, 10-ho  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, July 31 -- The Organization for Competitive Markets issued the following news release: Today the Organization for Competitive Markets (OCM) sent a letter to Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim of the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), calling for the DOJ to stop the purchase of Mountain States-Rosen (MSR), a Greeley, Colorado-based lamb processing cooperative made up of 150 independent producers, by Brazilian company JBS, the world's la  more

OMAHA, Nebraska, Aug. 4 -- The University of Nebraska Medical Center issued the following news release: The University of Nebraska Medical Center has set another record for research funding from external sources, topping $174.2 million for fiscal year 2020, a 26% increase from the previous year's record $138 million. As in previous years, most of the grant sources -- 69% -- are funded by federal sources, and of those, most are from the National Institutes of Health. Of the total, $7 million i  more