Wheat scientists unveil historic 'gold mine'.

Genome sequencing of century-old collection could help breeders restore long-lost traits.

In Antarctica, scientists track a dangerous bird flu.

Despite apparently minimal seabird deaths, grave concern for the next breeding season.

Does fluoride in drinking water risk IQ loss?

A U.S. federal court is examining a controversial link between fluoride and neurotoxicity.

Lawsuits force changes in U.S. pesticide regs.

EPA is drawing up new rules for farmers, but some worry the science isn't ready.

High hopes for short corn.

Plants bred or engineered to be short can stand up better to windstorms. They could also boost yields and benefit the environment.

Plan to move Kew herbarium roils plant world.

Botanists say transferring specimens to distant site is unnecessary and will hamper research.

Deadly avian flu hits Galápagos.

Concerns rise for boobies, finches, and other endemic species.

Prospect of unregulated deep-sea mining looms.

Seabed authority fails to finish rules in time, opening the door to the first mining license.

After Ukrainian dam breach, war hampers study of ecological toll.

Mines and active combat make fieldwork too risky.

Unmixed blessing.

Researchers are closing in on the long-sought goal of creating high-yielding hybrid crops that can be propagated indefinitely, without sex.

Antibody-based defense may protect plants from disease.

A "creative" strategy to keep crops healthy borrows key pathogen detectors from the animal immune system.

China battles alien weed at unprecedented scale.

"Mammoth" plan to control a coastal invader would benefit migratory birds.

Nations agree on long-sought high seas biodiversity treaty.

Pact sets framework for creating reserves and sharing profits.

Oceans away.

Is raising salmon on land the next big thing in farming fish?

Perennial rice could be a 'game changer'.

Long-term study in China shows yields hold up and farmers save money and time.

This lagoon is effectively a person, new Spanish law says.

In a first for Europe, country borrows concept from Indigenous science to protect endangered body of water.

New law's big payout for farming has uncertain climate payoff.

Measures to capture carbon in soil may be less effective than hoped, scientists say.

Ambitious bill leads to 40% cut in emissions, models show.

But more action is needed to reach Biden's pledge to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.

Deadly bird flu establishes a foothold in North America.

H5N1 has continued to kill wild birds and poultry this summer. The fall migration could bring it back in force.