Soil Carbon Co. is developing a new approach that allows plants to sequester way more carbon than they do naturally, which could help sink billions of tons of carbon into existing farmland. On farms ...

Water is the limiting factor for agriculture in many of the world’s semiarid regions, where crops are lost to drought in their early stages of life, during germination and as young seedlings.

Extreme climate events mean crops are increasingly stressed by drought—especially during the crucial stages of seed germination. Inspired by chia seeds’ natural coating, which swells into a gel when ...