A new study finds deciduous trees are increasingly dominant after severe fires in the region, and that has some unexpected impacts.

A new study finds deciduous trees are increasingly dominant after severe fires in the boreal forest, and that's having some unexpected impacts.

We may think of plants as passive life forms, but they can cooperate, share resources, send one another warnings, and distance themselves from their communities when survival depends on it.

Using tiny 'soil chips', researchers have observed the forgaging strategies of fungi for the first time.

It's possible to feed the world's 7.8 billion people with more environmentally friendly farming practices. Here's how.

The spread of tawny crazy ants may be driven, in part, by their need for calcium.

Anti-nutrients naturally occur in food and can block the amount of other nutrients available for your body to use. But their effects aren't all bad, which is why they're undergoing an image makeover.

An international agreement has set an ambitious deadline for action on some of the biggest problems facing the world's oceans.

New research shows that one-third of yearly nitrogen runoff from Midwest farms to the Gulf of Mexico occurs during a few heavy rainstorms. New fertilizing schedules could reduce nitrogen pollution.

To avoid global warming on a catastrophic scale, nations need to reduce emissions and find ways to pull carbon from the air. One promising solution: spreading rock dust on farm fields.