New self-watering soil that pulls water from the air to feed it to plants could help people grow crops in places with sandy soil.

New self-watering soil that pulls water from the air to feed it to plants could help people grow crops in places with sandy soil.

Heavy rain events, which happen just a few days each year, have an outsize role in sending nitrogen runoff into waterways, computer modeling indicates.

When an American pilot went down over the Soviet Union in the 1960s, the US launched a spy satellite. Its data now helps monitor the bobak marmot.

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted food supply chains and raised awareness of how food production harms the planet, an expert says.

Some fundamental farming strategies can limit damage from western corn rootworms, research finds.

New research on the possibility of geoengineering "reminds us that there is no perfect technical method to address the impacts of global warming."

Researchers have figured out how to measure the viscosity of droplets. That could help control pesticide spraying, ink-jet printing, and more.

"...if we act quickly and decisively, there is a slim window in which we can still conserve roughly half of Earth's land in a relatively intact state."

Mapping the mechanism that lets legumes make their own ammonium fertilizer could help make agriculture more sustainable.