Drones and other aircraft effectively spray pesticides over miles of crops, but the method also can pollute the environment if wind carries the mist off-target.

The town of Mariental sits at the convergence of the Kalahari Desert and the Central Plateau.

Fires are raging in eastern Siberia in the midst of an unusually long-lived heat wave.

The Texas A&M Forest Service encourages preparation now.

Conservation management around the margins of agriculture fail to protect butterfly species at greatest risk from the intensification of farming, a new study says.

It may be coming to a bakery near you: Bread made from wheat that has had its photosynthetic mechanism refashioned to help it flourish on a warmer planet.

Wheatgrass is packed with beneficial nutrients, which makes the crop a popular superfood. 

Beekeepers across the United States lost 43.7% of their managed honey bee colonies from April 2019 to April 2020, according to preliminary results of the 14th annual nationwide survey conducted by the nonprofit Bee Informed Partnership (BIP). 

As concern grows among environmentalists and consumers about micro- and nanoplastics in the oceans and in seafood, they are increasingly studied in marine environments, say Baoshan Xing at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and colleagues in China. 

After two years of severe drought, abundant rain finally fell over the Australian state and turned the landscape green.