Artificial intelligence could reshape how farms manage nitrogen by treating the nitrogen cycle as a single, connected system that links...

Plants build organs by coordinating “initiation” and “growth,” but how one signal can drive two opposite outcomes has been unclear....

Iron-enriched “biochar” is emerging as an unexpected tool for cleaner, more efficient nitrogen cycling in flooded paddy soils, according to...

ITHACA, N.Y. — Cornell University researchers have introduced BINN (Biogeochemistry-Informed Neural Network), an AI model designed to speed up and...

A low-dose leaf spray may help tomato plants thrive on farmland made unproductive by salt, according to a new study...

Winter wheat’s status before overwintering strongly influences safe survival and eventual yield, making leaf age a crucial indicator of seedling...

A new study published in Communications Earth & Environment suggests that cooling during the mid- to late Holocene reshaped how...

A new multi-year field study from Peru’s Piura region challenges a long-held assumption in cocoa agriculture: native fine-flavor cacao may...

Land degradation may be doing more than shrinking ecosystems—it could also be quietly widening the distance between what crops could...

July 23, 2026 — For decades, “slash-and-burn” has served as a shorthand villain for rainforest loss, implying that swidden—or shifting...