Rice’s nutritional value decreases as atmospheric CO2 increases
In Washington State, a new field study by an international team of scientists indicates that higher carbon dioxide concentrations are associated with reductions in...
Agricultural impacts from climate change lead world hunger
In New York, world hunger has risen for a third consecutive year, according to the United Nations' annual food security report. The total number...
Southern pine beetles move north with increasing temperatures
In New York, a new study shows the southern pine beetle – one of the world’s most aggressive tree-killing insects – could spread through...
Corals like the taste of plastic
In North Carolina, a Duke University study of plastic ingestion by corals suggests they are not mistaking it for prey like other marine animals...
Researchers map 94 percent of the wheat genome
In the United Kingdom, a major international research collaboration of more than 200 scientists from 73 research institutes in 20 countries over 13 years...
Quantum dots made from tea leaves kill cancer cells
In the United Kingdom, nanoparticles derived from tea leaves inhibited the growth of lung cancer cells and destroyed up to 80 percent of them....
Unaltered environmental changes could decrease global vegetable production
In the United Kingdom, a study led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is the first to systematically examine the extent...
Cal Poly Strawberry Center joins other researchers to improve strawberry disease resistance
In California, the Cal Poly Strawberry Center, along with a team of scientists in California and Florida, has been awarded a $4.5 million grant...
Tropical forests now emit more carbon than they capture
In Massachusetts, a new, cutting-edge approach to measuring changes in aboveground forest carbon density has helped scientists determine that widespread deforestation, degradation and disturbance...
Mixed forests are more productive and ecologically resilient
In Germany, mixed forests are more productive than monocultures. This is true on all five continents, and particularly in regions with high precipitation according...