Federal protection of national forest “roadless areas” may be far more important to clean drinking water than many people realize,...

Precolonial societies in Brazil’s Cerrado—a vast tropical savanna—have long posed a puzzle: did people survive mainly through mobile hunting and...

A major new multimodel ensemble (MME) study assesses how global agriculture could look by 2050 under a coordinated “food systems...

Shifting global food systems toward healthier and more sustainable diets is increasingly urgent. A 2025 EAT–Lancet Commission assessment suggests that...

A new Nature analysis suggests that a rapid shift toward healthier diets—combined with higher farm productivity and a halving of...

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is part of the BRIDGES Engine team that has won up to $160 million from...

Palm oil is woven into everyday life—from foods and cosmetics to detergents and industrial uses—yet its rapid expansion has raised...

Solar storms—flares and coronal mass ejections—can shower Earth with energetic particles that once helped spark chemical reactions in the early...

China’s water quality regulation has yielded significant environmental gains but at a steep economic cost for upstream agricultural communities, reveals...

Arsenic contamination in paddy fields poses a serious risk to global food safety, as the flooded conditions typical to rice...