When food makes people sick, some blame birds because they hang around farms, and their feces can contain E. coli, Salmonella and Campylobacter, three common pathogens that can cause food-borne illness.

First joint Cuba/U.S. geology team in half-century discovers Cuban fertilizer pollution far lower than Mississippi River—model for global agriculture.

Flowering plants are better pollinated in urban than in rural areas. 

When we think of climate change, we tend to think about greenhouse gases, fossil fuels and pollution. 

Nearly everyone on Earth is familiar with corn. Literally.

Harvard scientist suggests long-term exposure to smoke-filled air could lead to premature deaths.

Diversity is key to resilience, says new study.

A weather forecast may not allow time to make decisions that minimize the economic impacts of an extreme event, while a seasonal forecast is not precise enough to predict it. 

For organic farms, size matters: not so much the size of the farm itself, but the size of the neighboring fields.