Wildfires on Alaska's North Slope were more active this past century than at any time in the past 3,000 years, according to a ...

Farmers have increasingly sown a single type of grass in their fields over the past 100 years, and then added chemical ...

An undergraduate field seminar at Brown teaches aspiring biologists and backyard botanists alike how to identify the flora of ...

Farmers are struggling to adapt to climate change and its challenges, but new research has some helpful advice.

Trees may look still and silent, but they’re engaged in a constant, complex dialogue—through air, soil, and even electricity.

Collecting native seed can be labor intensive but it eventually pays for itself by creating even more seeds — for free.

Carolina Gold rice, served at Michelin star restaurants across the country, was in danger of disappearing in 2025. This group ...

These hikes from Maura Fox’s Hike of the Week column can be found in Julian, Poway, Santee and other East County communities.

Plants do not rely only on their leaves to feed on carbon dioxide. A new study in Carbon Research reveals that maize roots ...

Nebraska livestock industry feels the hit of the announced Tyson plant closing in Lexington, Dave Bergmeier writes.

Ecological medicine is a new approach to health science that draws on a very old idea: connecting with each other, with animals and plants, and with the natural world fosters health and well-being for ...

A gas leak at Petrobras' P-40 offshore oil platform in Brazil's Campos basin on Thursday has led to the preventive shutdown ...