New study: Continent-wide analysis finds invasive grasses increase fire risk about as much as climate change does.

Your guacamole may hold the key to managing obesity and helping delay or prevent diabetes, according to a new study by a University of Guelph research team.

The impact of losing intact tropical forests is more devastating on the climate than previously thought, according to University of Queensland-led research.

Texas A&M AgriLife scientists find fruitful applications of Raman spectroscopy in food production, from the field to the grocery store.

Just downhill from the Gumbasa Aqueduct, farmers practice wet rice cultivation involving the purposeful flooding of fields. This flooding also raises the water table underground. The excess groundwater directly contributed to the 2018 landslides.

When many people think of watermelon, they likely think of Citrullus lanatus, the cultivated watermelon with sweet, juicy red fruit enjoyed around the world as a dessert. 

Micro-organisms living inside plant roots team up to boost the plant’s growth and tolerance to stress. 

Rice is the largest global staple crop, consumed by more than half the world’s population – but new experiments from Stanford University suggest that with climate change, production in major rice-growing regions with endemic soil arsenic will undergo a dramatic decline and jeopardize critical food supplies.

Many of us think about pollen only when allergy season is upon us.

The horizontal drilling method called hydraulic fracturing helps the United States produce close to 4 billion barrels of oil per year, rocketing the U.S. to the top of oil-producing nations in the world.