Growing up 45 minutes from the University of Delaware, Renea Briner remembers visiting the campus during her freshman year of high school and hearing about the exciting opportunities at UD’s College of Earth, Ocean and Environment (CEOE).

As the world responds to the simultaneous challenges of climate change and increased demands for certain commodities such as food and energy, land use and land cover are changing.

Worldwide, policies are increasingly aimed at planting more trees and crops both to combat climate change and increase food and fuel production.

Tropical islands have an important ally when it comes to battling storms and sea-level rise: seagrass. 

As wildfires rage across much of the American West, researchers at Stanford have used CAT scanners, the same instruments used in medicine to peer inside the human body, to understand the process of smoldering.

Scientists at Oklahoma State University are giving wheat farmers new options to plant in their fields soon — five wheat varieties that build on years of research and careful selection of the best traits.

It is the time of year when Oklahoma wildlife goes nuts … over acorns. The floors of the state’s wooded areas are loaded with these delectable little nuggets of goodness.

Harmful algal blooms are a growing problem in water across the nation, but OSU researchers may have one piece of the solution thanks to groundbreaking research and new funding.

Fire and logging are substantially reducing the number of hollow-bearing trees that threatened and critically endangered Australian mammals can use as homes, a new study from The Australian National University (ANU) warns.

A major new international study has provided a first worldwide insight into how soil erosion may be affecting the longevity of our soils.