A natural alternative to pesticides may be hiding in a misunderstood plant compound — but it could come at an environmental cost.
Some Plants Make Their Own Pesticide — But at What Cost to the Atmosphere?
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Amazon Trees Under Pressure: New Study Reveals How Forest Giants Handle Light and Heat
In a recent study published in New Phytologist, researchers at Michigan State University have uncovered how Amazon rainforest canopy trees manage the intense sunlight they absorb — revealing resilience to hot and dry conditions in the forest canopy while also offering a way to greatly improve the monitoring of canopy health under increasing extreme conditions.
Wet Soils Increase Flooding During Atmospheric River Storms
A new study examined decades of atmospheric river storms across the West Coast to pinpoint the conditions that lead to catastrophic flooding.
What’s Really in our Food? A Global Look at Food Composition Databases—and the Gaps We Need to Fix
To build healthier food systems, we need better food data. A new research shows where the gaps are—and how innovations like PTFI are helping to close them.
A Third of Forests Lost This Century Will Likely Never Be Restored
Of the forest lost so far this century, roughly a third was destroyed to make room for farms, a new analysis finds.
Fossil Corals Point to Possibly Steeper Sea Level Rise Under a Warming World
Coastal planners take heed: Newly uncovered evidence from fossil corals found on an island chain in the Indian Ocean suggests that sea levels could rise even more steeply in our warming world than previously thought.
