Agriculture is a major driver of climate change and biodiversity loss. But integrating trees into farming practices can boost food production, store carbon and save species.
2021’s first “murder hornet” is yet another arrival. This is the not-so-new normal.
Applied to the shoots, nutrients served in tiny metallic packages are absorbed more efficiently, strengthening plants’ defenses against fungal attack.
In a Yucatan nature park, engineered genes influence nectar production, affecting ants’ and maybe pollinators’ attraction to the wild cotton plants.
Scientific explorations of terroir — the soil, climate and orientation in which crops grow — hint at influences on flavors and aromas.
Drones are too clumsy to rub pollen on flowers and not damage them. But blowing pollen-laden bubbles may help the machines be better pollinators.
Insects invented agriculture long before humans did. Can we learn anything from them?
Tailored microbes defend bees with a gene-silencing process called RNA interference that takes on viruses or mites.
Timber traffickers are plundering the world’s forests, but conservationists have a new set of tools to fight deforestation.
Too much groundwater use could push over half of pumped watersheds past an ecological tipping point by 2050, compromising aquatic ecosystems worldwide.