Background Articles

Somewhere between the size of a sewer rat and a beaver, with a tail resembling that of an opossum and protruding, nacho cheese-colored teeth, the nutria is both impressively unattractive and highly destructive.

Bees, butterflies, and other insects are under attack by the very plants they feed on as U.S. agriculture continues to use chemicals known to kill.

Change is coming to Alaska’s plants, animals, insects and microbes, and gardening practices will need to change too.

Average daytime temperatures in Guatemala have risen over the past decade, while crop-damaging frosts are more common.

'There's nothing good about them.' They carry disease and cause billions in damage

Due to the recent devastating drought, soybean production in Uruguay is forecast to drop to 1.7 million tons in 2017-18, according to an April 30 Global Agricultural Information Network (GAIN) report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The average temperature for the entire country was 1.2 degrees above normal in March. It is thus the twelfth month in a row that the temperature in Norway has been above normal.

Last year's drought summer resulted in halved grass crops in Eastern Norway compared to the previous year, according to recent figures from Statistics Norway. - The consequences of the drought continue to affect the daily lives of many farmers, says Lars Petter Bartnes, leader of the Norwegian Farmers' Union.

As Australia faces historic drought conditions, the impacts of climate change are increasingly difficult to ignore.

In this corner of the Middle East, a changing climate and debilitating dust storms have brought life to a standstill.

‘The changes have become more radical’: farmers are spending more time and money trying to grow crops in new climates

Western Lake Erie's annual summer algal blooms are triggered, at least in part, by cyanobacteria cells that survive the winter in lake-bottom sediments, then emerge in the spring to "seed" the next year's bloom, according to a research team led by University of Michigan scientists.

An unusually dry, hot summer means Sweden will see smaller yields of crops like wheat, barley and oats, according to the Swedish Board of Agriculture.

Scientists aren't sure what is causing this whirlpool of algae but believe it's likely to cause a marine dead zone.

Blue-green algae has bloomed again in Lake Okeechobee, filling waterways with putrid sludge that can contaminate local water and marine animals.

A new report breaks down climate impacts on health by US region

Some farmers in the United States and Canada have noticed that the quantity and quality of their maple syrup is changing with climate variability. Now researchers who are investigating these observations.

A grassroots project to build biomass-heated greenhouses aims to alleviate food insecurity in the communities most affected by it.

There were no bugs buzzing around the lights in the parking lot.

Gardeners in Alaska know that it’s hard to grow big, juicy tomatoes here. But as the climate rapidly warms in the far North, that could change. Anchorage reached 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius) for the first time on record in 2019.