It’s said that maple syrup is Quebec's liquid gold. Now scientists at Université de Montréal have found a way to use real gold — in the form of nanoparticles — to quickly find out how the syrup tastes.

Even in China’s largest, driest, and hottest desert, vegetation sprouts in the spring.

Use of a competitor molecule pesticide isolated in solution.

Careful engineering of low, plant-covered hills along shorelines can mitigate tsunami risks with less disruption of coastal life and lower costs compared to seawalls.

If warming continues unabated in the Midwest, in 50 years we can expect the best conditions for corn and soybean production to have shifted from Iowa and Illinois to Minnesota and the Dakotas, according to Penn State researchers.

Most of the world’s fertilizer is produced in large manufacturing plants, which require huge amounts of energy to generate the high temperatures and pressures needed to combine nitrogen and hydrogen into ammonia.

The Stillwater Complex in the Beartooth Mountains contains a mineral that closely resembles the most common mineral on the surface of the Moon.

The area of agricultural land that will require irrigation in future could be up to four times larger than currently estimated, a new study has revealed.

If no significant rain falls in May 2020, the country could face a drought for the third summer in a row.

The global demand and consumption of agricultural crops is increasing at a rapid pace.