The ancient crop provides flavor for humans and forage for livestock.

A common weed harbors important clues about how to create drought resistant crops in a world beset by climate change.

Plant-based alternatives to beef have the potential to help reduce carbon dioxide emissions, but their growth in popularity could disrupt the agricultural workforce, threatening more than 1.5 million industry jobs, new economic models show.

Precipitation alone does not properly characterize vegetation water stresses.

A new study uses data from the ECOSTRESS instrument aboard the space station to better understand why some parts of a wildfire burn more intensely than others.

Adjusting the sowing dates for wheat in eastern India will increase untapped potential production by 69%, new research shows, helping to ensure food security and farm profitability as the planet warms.

Lakes and other freshwater systems emit large quantities of methane, which is the second most important greenhouse gas worldwide after CO2. 

With the UK reaching record temperatures this summer along with the driest conditions since 1976, ongoing concerns about food security, wildlife habitats and biodiversity, having a healthy soil system is more vital and challenging than ever before. 

Utah’s Great Salt Lake dropped to its lowest recorded water level last month as a megadrought persists across the US southwest

Study finds it necessary to conserve natural remnants of old foreasts in addition to restoring new forests.