Pesticides and herbicides are critical to ensuring food security worldwide, but these substances can present a safety risk to people who unwittingly ingest them. 

Much of the water in the West is transported across vast geographical areas by large infrastructure projects known as interbasin water transfers.

Nanozymes are tiny, engineered substances that mimic the catalytic properties of natural enzymes, and they serve a variety of purposes in biomedicine,  chemical engineering, and environmental applications. 

Two “new” herbicide options could soon be available for blackberry growers during the 2025 growing season.

Scientists have discovered that ponderosa pines effectively stop breathing when beset by wildfire smoke.

California should take urgent and bold measures to adapt its $59 billion agriculture sector to climate change as the amount of water available for crops declines, according to a collaborative report by University of California faculty from four campuses.

Forests are often described as the ‘lungs of the Earth’, absorbing twice as much carbon as they emit, acting as carbon sinks (storing CO2 in their branches, roots and leaves).

An international team of researchers has found that nitrogen emissions from fertilisers and fossil fuels have a net cooling effect on the climate.

New, non-native plant species are constantly being found in Svalbard, and researchers are working to ascertain what threat these species pose to the native plants.

For many years, we have known that trees are nature's champions at absorbing carbon dioxide.