When scientists and policymakers make tough calls on which areas to prioritize for conservation, biodiversity is often their top consideration. 

The famous work ethic of honey bees might spell disaster for these busy crop pollinators as the climate warms, new research indicates.

While forest managers have proved adept of stamping out small wildfires, they have been less successful at suppressing larger, more devastating burns.

New research from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Virginia Tech suggests that technologies such as controlled environment agriculture and agrivoltaics may become part of the future of farming.

Coastal seas form a complex transition zone between the two largest CO2 sinks in the global carbon cycle: land and ocean.

A new study of summer weather in Texas finds the heat index — an indicator of how hot it feels outside — is rising much faster than the temperature.

A new study from McGill University and the Max Planck Institute and published recently in Science suggests an answer to this question that has stood unanswered for half a century among ecologists.

Ground-based measuring devices and aircraft radar operated in the far northeast of Greenland show how much ice the 79° N Glacier is losing.

A new analysis of zooplankton in western Lake Erie shows that their biomass and seasonal behavioral patterns have been drastically altered by human-driven changes in water temperature and food webs.

As winter turned to spring, a mid-March storm dropped several feet of snow on Colorado.