Professor Joshua Fu and colleagues studied wildfires in that state from 2011 through 2014, gaining valuable insight into how smoke from the fires affects the health of people in its path.
Data indicates only a small increase of Amazonian fires in 2019 compared to 2018.
Scientists are concerned that the growth of commercial-scale agriculture on farms in tropical regions is increasing the global nitrogen footprint.
Many studies seek to estimate the adverse effects of climate change on crops, but most research assumes that the geographic distribution of crops will remain unchanged in the future.
University of Illinois scientists, with help from members of the Illinois Corn Growers Association, have developed a new, scalable method for estimating crop productivity in real time.
A Texas A&M AgriLife expert says the virus' impact on global production, manufacturing and consumption has caused cotton prices to drop.
The outbreak of COVID-19 in humans is a concern worldwide, but coronaviruses are common for livestock and poultry, a Texas A&M AgriLife expert says.
The reality of science, statistics, and satellites is that a deep understanding of the causes, effects, and severity of a fire season takes time.
The Southern High Plains of the United States have low annual rainfall.
Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan (USask) Crop Development Centre (CDC) have developed a fast and accurate method for identifying and quantifying toxins in fusarium-infected cereal grain.
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