MIT postdoc Giorgio Rizzo harnesses plant chemistry to design sustainable fertilizers that could reshape modern farming.

Research team conducts meta-analysis on the potential of diverse pasture lands for dairy farming.

Genetic selection could help farmers and breeders reduce greenhouse gases from crops, particularly rice cultivation, research by the University of Warwick and Cranfield University shows.

Average tree size across the Amazon has increased by 3.2% every decade consistent with a response to rising carbon dioxide levels, a new study suggests. 

Researchers have shown that pollen collected by honeybees contains Streptomyces bacteria that are endophytes, symbionts living inside plant tissue. 

Hawaiʻi’s ecosystems and agriculture face growing threats from invasive species, with about 20 new insects and 100 new plants arriving each year, undermining the islands’ ecological, cultural and economic foundations. 

In a comment published in Nature Climate Change, Mark Bradford, the E.H. Harriman Professor of Soils and Ecosystem Ecology, and Yale School of the Environment research scientists Sara Kuebbing and Alexander Polussa ’25 PhD, together with colleagues Emily Oldfield ’05, ’11 MESc, ’19 PhD, of Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and Jonathan Sanderman of the Woodwell Climate Research Center, argue that the scientific evidence supporting soil carbon’s role in mitigating climate change remains too weak to meet the standards required for policy and carbon markets.

Rodrigo Werle wonders if anybody is ever happy to see him.

Improving biodiversity and maintaining yields at the same time? For many, this sounds like a contradiction in terms. 

In the U.S., more than one third of food goes to waste. As such, more food ends up in landfills than any other material.