Microplastics are accumulating in Orkney’s seagrass beds at much higher rates than in the areas surrounding them.

Plant health is an overarching term for emerging risks including pests, diseases and weeds, integrated pest management and innovation in plant protection.

Alaska’s Tongass and Chugach National Forests, which contain some of the world’s largest remaining tracts of intact temperate rainforest, contribute an average of 48 million salmon a year to the state’s commercial fishing industry, a new USDA Forest Service-led study(link is external) has found.

When you think of the effects of climate change on wildlife, what’s the first image that pops into your mind? 

Adelaide-based Airborne Research Australia is creating free 3D high resolution maps of devastation caused by fires in the Adelaide Hills and Kangaroo Island to help communities recover and reduce future fire risks.

The research also revealed a 15% increase in snow-water equivalent — the amount of water contained within the snowpack — for every 20% increase in tree mortality in the burned areas.

The increase of fungicide resistance is a major reason why SLB has recently become the dominant foliar pathogen in onions.

In the study, researchers recount the re-alignment of the ancient and modern Mississippi River during the last 15,000 years.

NASA tracks evapotranspiration rates from satellites.

In response to criticism, the EU issued a decree in 2014 enabling farmers to organise themselves in groups to implement nature policy themselves.