A “Finding Common Water” rafting excursion developed by EDF and UC Merced was designed to get participants with a stake in California water off our desk chairs and onto rafts, out of the ordinary and into an extraordinary setting — a hot, highly regulated, wild and scenic river — to push everyone out of their comfort zone and get to work on addressing real water problems.

EDF and partners at Cornell University launched a two-part social science study to examine Louisiana residents’ risk perceptions related to coastal land loss and climate change.

The voluntary carbon market is booming. But do companies know what to look out for? A new guide from leading environmental NGOs including EDF aims to help businesses check if a carbon offset is actually saving rainforests.

As the climate changes, family farms face many challenges. These North Carolina farmers employ innovative farming techniques to help them weather the storms.

EDF Guide to existing authorities and management tools for groundwater conservation districts and communities in Texas.

This new platform from EDF, NASA, Desert Research Institute, Google and others helps farmers figure out how to get as much as they can out of every drop of water.

EDF partnered with Cooperative Extension at North Carolina A&T State University to study the financial impacts of climate resilience on farms in North Carolina.

Market analysis by EDF finds strong demand for lending products that support farmers’ transition to soil health practices.

Credits for soil carbon sequestration lack comparability and consistency. Guidelines will help guarantee that credits deliver climate benefits.

EDF is making water supplies more resilient to climate change, population growth and other pressures so people and wildlife have clean water supplies for generations to come.

Environmental Defense Fund commissioned K·Coe Isom, LLP to estimate the potential effect of climate-change induced yield changes on farm revenue, economic productivity, and government revenues in Iowa in the next two decades (2020 to 2039).

Story Map by Environmental Defense Fund

Just as collaboration, innovation and leadership on groundwater were needed to ensure a resilient economic future for Arizona’s cities, EDF argues they are also needed today to ensure the survival and prosperity of rural Arizona.

EDF and partners convened a series of bilingual workshops known as the Leadership Academy in Visalia, California. For six months, rural water board leaders from 13 communities met once a month to develop and practice skills that will help them become better advocates for their communities.

EDF's Central Valley Resilience Initiative is working to transform California's Central Valley into a pioneering agricultural region that not only puts food on our nation’s plates but also supports thriving wildlife habitat, outdoor recreation, soil health, groundwater recharge and flood control.

EDF worked with researchers in conservation agriculture to publish a practitioner’s guide to conducting budget analyses for on-farm conservation practices.

EDF is partnering with NASA and others to build OpenET, filling a major data gap for farmers and water managers in the arid West.

Report by EDF and Climate and Forest Capital highlights key opportunities to invest in soil health and agricultural resilience.

The OpenET project incorporates use cases to highlight the important ways that more accessible evapotranspiration (ET) data can encourage and benefit sustainable land and water management and drive greater adoption.

Water supplies are becoming scarcer as a result of more severe droughts supercharged by climate change. New technology from EDF, NASA, and other partners aims to build resilient water supplies and ensure a more secure food supply.

EDF partnered with leading experts to develop a law review article, published in the Journal of Environmental Law, that takes a deep dive into the relationship between California's SGMA and groundwater rights.

A new report from EDF details climate risks to the farm lending sector and provides a path forward for lenders to support a more resilient agricultural system.

Our ability to thrive on a changing planet will depend creating incentives, policies and social norms to build agricultural resilience and create hub lands.

N balance is grounded in science and good for farmers. EDF experts partnered with scientists to determine the “safe zone” — a range of N balance scores in which a farmer is optimizing yields, minimizing excess nutrients and protecting long-term soil health.

EDF analyses show how conservation practices build agricultural resilience while benefiting farmers, lenders, insurers and landowners.