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Africa’s ‘Great Green Wall’ could have far-reaching climate effects (Jan 2022)

Agriculture and fossil fuels are driving record-high methane emissions (Jul 2020)

As CO2 increases, rice loses B vitamins and other nutrients (May 2018)

Astronauts might be able to use asteroid soil to grow crops (Jul 2022)

Australia’s wildfires have now been linked to climate change (Mar 2020)

Australian fires in 2019–2020 had even more global reach than previously thought (Sep 2021)

Beets bleed red but a chemistry tweak can create a blue hue (Apr 2020)

A big analysis of environmental data strengthens the case for plant-based diets (Jun 2018)

Big genetics study blazes path for bringing back tomato flavor (Jan 2017)

Birds fed a common pesticide lost weight rapidly and had migration delays (Sep 2019)

Cats chewing on catnip boosts the plant’s insect-repelling powers (Jun 2022)

Changing climate could worsen foods’ nutrition (Mar 2017)

Cleared tropical forests can regain ground surprisingly fast (Dec 2021)

Clearing land to feed a growing human population will threaten thousands of species (Dec 2020)

Climate change is bringing earlier springs, which may trigger drier summers (Jan 2020)

Clouds affected by wildfire smoke may produce less rain (Sep 2021)

Color-coded radar maps reveal a patchwork of California wildfire destruction (Feb 2021)

Corn domestication took some unexpected twists and turns (Dec 2018)

The dietary habits of the emerald ash borer beetle are complicated (Nov 2017)

The dinosaur-killing asteroid impact radically altered Earth's tropical forests (Apr 2021)

Do gophers farm roots? It’s not as clear as viral articles claim (Jul 2022)

Fed by human-caused erosion, many river deltas are growing (Jan 2020)

Fingerprints of climate change are increasingly appearing in extreme weather (Dec 2019)

The flowers that give us chocolate are ridiculously hard to pollinate (Feb 2018)

Forests help reduce global warming in more ways than one (Mar 2022)

Fungi may be crucial to storing carbon in soil as the Earth warms (Nov 2021)

GM moth trial gets a green light from USDA (Jul 2017)

How Hurricane Maria’s heavy rains devastated Puerto Rico’s forests (Mar 2020)

How to build better ice towers for drinking water and irrigation (Jul 2022)

How to grow toxin-free corn (Mar 2017)

Humans are overloading the world’s freshwater bodies with phosphorus (Feb 2018)

Invasive grasses are taking over the American West’s sea of sagebrush (Dec 2021)

The last wild horses aren’t truly wild (Feb 2018)

More than 57 billion tons of soil have eroded in the U.S. Midwest (Apr 2022)

Much of the world’s honey now contains bee-harming pesticides (Oct 2017)

A new origin story for domesticated chickens starts in rice fields 3,500 years ago (Jun 2022)

Pandas’ share of protein calories from bamboo rivals wolves’ from meat (May 2019)

Planting trees could buy more time to fight climate change than thought (Jul 2019)

Potty-trained cattle could help reduce pollution (Sep 2021)

Prosecco production takes a toll on northeast Italy’s environment (Jan 2019)

Satellites make mapping hot spots of ammonia pollution easier (Jan 2019)

Smoke from Australian fires rose higher into the ozone layer than ever before (Jun 2020)

Technology and natural hazards clash to create ‘natech’ disasters (Nov 2020)

This honeybee parasite may be more of a fat stealer than a bloodsucker (Jan 2019)

A tweaked yeast can make ethanol from cornstalks and a harvest’s other leftovers (Jul 2021)

Warming soils may belch much more carbon (Mar 2017)

Wildfires are making extreme air pollution even worse in the northwest U.S. (Jul 2018)

Wildfires make their own weather, and that matters for fire management (Sep 2018)