Rutgers-led research highlights lesser-known options with fewer trade-offs.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory developed a method that uses machine learning to predict seasonal fire risk in Africa.

Growth and development of all organisms depends on coordinated regulation of gene expression in time and space, and this is largely controlled by non-coding sequences in the genome.

Scientists have filled a gaping hole in the world's climate records by reconstructing 600 years of soil-moisture swings across southern and central South America. 

In Peru, a landslide damaged farmland and stopped the flow of an important local river.

In a study of New York state apple orchards, Cornell plant pathologists have identified a new fungal pathogen that causes bitter rot disease in apples.

Deserts of the U.S. Southwest are extreme habitats for most plants, but, remarkably, microscopic green algae live there that are extraordinarily tolerant of dehydration.

Coconut oil production may be more damaging to the environment than palm oil, researchers say.

Palm trees are more than five times more numerous in tropical forests in the Americas than in comparable Asian and African forests, a new study shows.

Almost all land plants employ an army of molecular editors who correct errors in their genetic information.