In the late 2000s, Scott Saleska noticed something strange going on in the Amazon rainforest. 

Rachel Penczykowski, an assistant professor of biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, and five WashU graduate and undergraduate students tracked infestations of powdery mildew on common broadleaf weeds.

Relying on water storage won’t be enough to make up for declines in future water availability under a changing climate, new study shows.

Sugarcane is the world’s largest crop by biomass yield, providing 80 percent of the sugar and 40 percent of the biofuel produced worldwide. 

Scientists have found in leafy vegetables traces of several chemicals used to prevent the aging and corrosion of car tires.

A compact, lightweight sensor system with infrared imaging capabilities developed by an international team of engineers could be easily fitted to a drone for remote crop monitoring.

Car tires contain hundreds of chemical additives that can leach out of them.

Humans may be accelerating the rate at which organic matter decomposes in rivers and streams on a global scale, according to a new study from the University of Georgia, Oakland University and Kent State University.

A rare fork fern found in the island nation of New Caledonia has become a world record holder.

Switching food and drink purchases to very similar but more environmentally friendly alternatives could reduce the greenhouse gas emissions from household groceries by more than a quarter (26%) according to a new Australian study from The George Institute for Global Health and Imperial College London published today in Nature Food.