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...
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...
National Academies of Sciences release agricultural research needs report
In Washington, D.C., a new blueprint produced by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, "Science Breakthroughs 2030," lays out how research can...
Extended study finds no link between regularly eating eggs and cardiovascular risk
In Australia, University of Sydney researchers found that eating up to 12 eggs per week for a year did not increase cardiovascular risk factors...
Improve your diet over time to reduce your premature death risk
In Massachusetts, a recent Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health study found that people who improve the quality of their diets over time,...
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...
Forest soils lose carbon in a warming world
In Massachusetts, the world’s longest-running experiment to discover how warming temperatures affect forest soils has revealed that soil warming stimulates periods of abundant carbon...
Sugar-sweetened beverages increase cardiometabolic disease risk more than starches
In California, while calories from any food may increase the risk of obesity and other cardiometabolic diseases, 22 nutrition researchers agreed that sugar-sweetened beverages...