For the last century, rising levels of carbon dioxide helped plants grow faster, a rare silver lining in human-caused climate change.

Novel approach to measuring microbe activity in wetted soil leads to better understanding of vulnerability, researchers report.

Maize roots secrete certain chemicals that affect the quality of soil. In some fields, this effect increases yields of wheat planted subsequent to maize in the same soil by more than 4%.

The start of wine grape growing season in California’s Napa Valley now comes nearly a month earlier than it used to because of the region’s warming climate, according to a new study from a team led by UC San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography researcher Dan Cayan. 

On an overcast morning this past spring, Gegham Muradyan searches for signs of water trickling through the dry soils of Armenia’s Ararat Valley.

In a case study, scientists detected the costly infection in cabernet sauvignon grapevines before they showed symptoms visible to the human eye.

An international team of researchers led by UMD scientists have sequenced the complete genome for einkorn wheat, the world’s first domesticated crop and traced its evolutionary history. 

With nearly 170 million residents, Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated nations in the world. 

The REPLANT Act provides money for the US Forest Service to plant more than a billion trees in the next nine years.

In Africa, climate change impacts are experienced as extreme events like drought and floods.