Diverting urine away from municipal wastewater treatment plants and recycling the nutrient-rich liquid to make crop fertilizer would result in multiple environmental benefits when used at city scale, according to a new University of Michigan-led study.

A serious drought has flared up across half of the United States—a familiar story for the past two decades.

The vast majority of nutrients and sediment washed into streams flowing into the Chesapeake Bay are picked up by deluges from severe storms that occur on relatively few days of the year. 

University of Delaware Professor of Entomology Doug Tallamy published a new research study in Nature that systematically identifies the most critical plants needed to sustain food webs across the United States.

In 2006, Greenpeace launched a campaign exposing deforestation caused by soy production in the Brazilian Amazon. In the previous year, soy farming expanded into more than 1,600 square kilometers of recently cleared forests. The destruction, they said, had to stop.

Fires have scorched half of a World Heritage Site and threatened local wildlife.

Smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa use fertilizer well below recommended rates, contributing to consistently low agricultural productivity.

The Texas A&M Forest Service says that live trees have many environmental benefits, and are 100% biodegradable.

A prediction model that considers multiple landslides over time in a given region may improve the accuracy of early warning systems.

A long-term trend of ecological improvement is appearing in the mountains west of Boulder.