The growing use of nitrogen fertilizers in the production of food worldwide is increasing concentrations of nitrous oxide in the atmosphere—a greenhouse gas 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide and which remains in the atmosphere longer than a human lifetime.

When a local grower wanted to make a change to his vineyard management strategy, he turned to Brock University’s Cool Climate Oenology and Viticulture Institute (CCOVI) for help.

Another stretch of intense heat has reinvigorated the state’s brutal 2020 fire season.

Although less than one per cent of all water in the world is freshwater, it is what we drink and use for agriculture.

Most of the sediment that flows into the Atlantic Ocean from the mouth of the river comes from thousands of miles upstream.

New research from a team led by scientists at Purdue University has found that trees and plants play an important role in the formation of cirrus clouds, a finding that has implications for agriculture, urban development, and climate change modeling.

When it comes to climate change, relationships are everything. That’s a key takeaway of a new UO study that examines the interaction between plants, atmospheric carbon dioxide and rising water levels in the Mississippi River.

Texas A&M is part of a multi-university collaboration to study locust swarms and how to limit the destruction they leave behind.

Despite their critical nature, freshwater ecosystems are far more imperilled than their land and marine counter-parts.

Europe’s forests are sitting on a pollution timebomb which could rewrite their ecology when it explodes, say researchers.