Jul 27, 2017
A new study projects that global warming fueled increases in rain will mean more fertilizer runoff which will further choke US waterways
Jul 27, 2017
Botanists in Vermont say a flowering plant long thought to be extinct in the state is making a comeback
May 25, 2017
Jurors have sided with a California research university in its dispute with a renowned plant scientist credited with developing tasty strawberries as a professor at the school
May 17, 2017
A new study finds a warmer, wetter climate is helping push dozens of Eastern U.S. trees to the north and, surprisingly, west.
Mar 4, 2017
A federal study says more shrubs growing on Arctic tundra likely will have little effect on the abundance of most bird species until the vegetation grows tall
Jan 6, 2017
A new study says a distinctive type of tree that thrives in soggy soil from Alaska to Northern California could become a casualty of climate warming over the next 50 years
Sep 5, 2016
For 17 years with experiments on more than 1 million plants, scientists put future global warming to a real world test, growing California flowers and grasslands with extra heat, carbon dioxide and nitrogen to simulate a not-so-distant future
Aug 13, 2016
U.S. Geological Survey scientists spent this week studying how nutrient levels contribute to algae bloom outbreaks at two major Utah lakes