In Chester County, Pennsylvania, about 40 miles northwest of Philadelphia, Beaver Run carves a triangular piece of bottomland as it turns east to join French Creek. 

Last year, droughts devastated staple food crops across the developing world, cutting production by about half in some countries. 

Large ecosystems, such as the Amazon rainforest, will collapse and disappear alarmingly quickly, once a crucial tipping point is reached, according to calculations based on real-world data.

Domestication yielded bigger crops often at the expense of plant microbiomes.

Even during the wet season, fires can burn in the large wetland region in southwestern Brazil.

MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory scientists are refining our understanding of how light wavelengths impact how plants develop their chloroplasts.

Murdoch University researchers have delivered a new cultivar of French Serradella that is set to increase the sustainability of Wheatbelt crop-pasture rotations and lower the carbon footprint of cropping by as much as 50 percent.

Charcoal particles from recent bushfires in NSW were transported 50 kilometres, which has significance for fire history reconstruction.

Deforestation for consumer products increases malaria transmission.

More than half of the world’s population faces a looming threat to the quality and availability of their drinking water because climate change and urbanisation are expected to cause an increase in groundwater organic carbon, a new UNSW study has found.