Antibiotic resistance in human and animal health is on the forefront of public debate, but it’s a less well-known issue in plant agriculture. 

When Dr. Leluo Guan peers inside a cow’s stomach, she sees more than microbes—she sees an opportunity to cut methane emissions from cattle and improve profits for Canadian beef and dairy farmers.

A veteran environmental researcher at uOttawa, he has spent over three decades uncovering the quiet stories told by lakebeds and chemical fingerprints of human activity.

Monarch butterflies have always been remarkably resilient.

Pharmaceuticals used in healthcare provide huge health and economic benefits to society, but are now found extensively as pollutants across global waterways.

Newly identified methods to harness the properties of tungsten carbide could yield viable substitutes for precious metals like platinum.

Earthquake-detecting seismometers pinpoint sounds of space debris entering the atmosphere.

It started in the summer of 2013. Sea stars were dying in huge numbers in Washington State’s Olympic National Park: They became covered in white lesions.

Over many decades, coal mining in West Virginia has exposed sulfur-bearing rocks to oxygen, creating a widespread problem that continues to plague the region: the draining of highly acidic water into streams and creeks, which are then rendered lifeless.

Flowers emit scented chemicals to attract pollinators, but this perfume — and how pollinators interact with the plant — can go through profound changes as a crop becomes domesticated.