For predators like wolves, cougars and snow leopards, a cow or sheep out to pasture may make for an easy and tasty meal.

A new study on bees, plants and landscapes in upstate New York sheds light on how bee pathogens spread, offering possible clues for what farmers could do to improve bee health.

New study highlights the importance of interdisciplinary collaborations to reduce global food waste due to date labeling, a growing research trend.

A new study reported this week by evolutionary ecologist Lynn Adler at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Rebecca Irwin of North Carolina State University, with others, suggests that flower strips – rows of pollinator-friendly flowers planted with crops – offer benefits for common Eastern bumblebee (Bombus impatiens) colony reproduction, but some plants do increase pathogen infection risk.

Crop modeling is essential for understanding how to secure the food supply as the planet adapts to climate change. 

Corn cultivation spread from Mesoamerica to what is now the American Southwest by about 4000 B.C., but how and when the crop made it to other parts of North America is still a subject of debate. 

There’s plenty to learn about the so-called 'murder hornet,' which is the largest in the world.

Scientists studying air quality are working to find ways of monitoring ammonia – an increasing species in the atmosphere closely linked to water eutrophication, soil acidity, and biodiversity loss. 

UK researchers have developed a cheap and simple way of creating biofuel and fertiliser from seaweed, whilst removing plastic from the oceans and cleaning up tourist beaches in the Caribbean and Central America.

An NC State researcher has developed a new way to get CRISPR/Cas9 into plant cells without inserting foreign DNA.