ナショナルジオグラフィックさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ナショナルジオグラフィックInstagram)「Photo by @jimrichardsonng // Sponsored by @IndigoAg // Rich Iowa farmland stretched to the horizon as I looked out from high atop farmer Ben Riensche’s grain bins. Thunderstorms were drenching farms over in the next county, but here it was all late afternoon sunshine and lush crops. Ben’s ancestors came to this part of Iowa around Jesup for its rich soil, a gift handed down by ancient glaciers and millennia of prairie growth that built up fertile topsoil several feet deep. Much carbon from that soil has been lost in 150 years of farming. Ben uses no-till farming and cover crops to rebuild the soil, which help capture carbon from the atmosphere and put it back in the ground where it can sustain crops. // @IndigoAg is unlocking agriculture’s potential to help reverse climate change. That’s the vision behind the Terraton Initiative, a global movement with the goal of using regenerative farming practices to take one trillion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Follow @Terraton to see the progress.」10月19日 0時38分