Understanding how plants respond to stressful environmental conditions is crucial to developing effective strategies for protecting important agricultural crops from a changing climate. New research led by Carnegie’s Zhiyong Wang, Shouling, Xu, and Yang Bi reveals an important process by which plants switch between amplified and dampened stress responses.

Researchers at Linköping University have developed biosensors that make it possible to monitor sugar levels in real time deep in the plant tissues – something that has previously been impossible.

New approach might finally show the way to restoring the Chesapeake Bay.

From flooded spring fields to summer hailstorms and drought, farmers are well aware the weather is changing. 

Scientists are using radar data to decipher where and how well landscapes recover in the years after major fires.

In the northern high latitudes, trees aren’t the only fuel available to burn.

Seasonal crop fires are a staple of the sugar harvest, but the smoke might have health effects.

New methodology creates the first consistent global framework for estimating the carbon flux specifically for forests.

The economic value of insect pollinators was $34 billion in the U.S. in 2012, much higher than previously thought, according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Penn State University.

The Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) is a carnivorous plant that encloses its prey using modified leaves as a trap.