Agriculture

Peatlands cover only a small fraction of the planet’s land surface, yet they hold roughly one-quarter of all soil carbon....

The warning signs of heat stress in pigs may soon appear on a smartphone before they become visible in the...

Groundwater pumping to irrigate cannabis farms in California’s Emerald Triangle may be quietly draining the streams that sustain some of...

Tomato plants may have gained a new genetic ally in the fight against drought. Researchers from Xinjiang University and the...

Marek’s Disease Virus Study Identifies Genetic Regions Linked to Tumor Formation and Vaccine Escape A genome-wide analysis of Marek’s disease...

Virginia Tech researchers have taken pollen surveillance beyond the field and into the atmosphere, developing a method to measure and...

Mediterranean olive farming is entering a climate era unlike any in its long agricultural history. Rising temperatures, longer droughts, intense...

China’s maize harvest is entering a new era of uncertainty, and a new study suggests that the country’s biggest opportunity...

China’s transition toward a sustainable food system will depend less on isolated technological breakthroughs than on whether the country can...

Agriculture may be entering a new era in which crops are judged not only by how much food they produce,...

Rice may be getting a powerful nutritional upgrade. A new meta-analysis published in npj Sustainable Agriculture reports that combining genetic...

Brazilian aquaculture has revealed an unexpected bacterial threat that could reshape disease management in one of the world’s fastest-growing food...

Nitrogen fertilizer has helped transform modern agriculture, but its success comes with a costly paradox: crops often receive more nitrogen...

Timber harvesting may leave a forest standing while quietly damaging the plants needed to keep it alive. A new study...

A plate of food may look like a personal choice, but multiplied across millions of households, it becomes a force...

New York University researchers have identified a molecular switch that tells plants when they have absorbed enough nitrogen, a discovery...

Barragán Fonseca, K.Y., Mertens, D., Beschoren da Costa, P. et al. By-products of insect farming as a novel sustainable biofertilizer...

image: Hannah Frank, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Tulane University School of Science and Engineering, led a study...

Artificial intelligence could reshape how farms manage nitrogen by treating the nitrogen cycle as a single, connected system that links...

Scientists have identified a genetic switch that determines whether avocado trees flower as A-type or B-type—an advance that could compress...