North Carolina is experiencing climate change: warmer temperatures (especially at night), more frequent extreme rainfall and ...

The American Phytopathological Society (APS) looks at how Anaerobic Soil Disinfestation (ADS) can help cut flower growers.

While a single plant is capable of fixing inorganic carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air, the entire ecosystem surrounding the ...

Llama-like vicuñas’ bathroom habits promote regrowth on barren glacier-ravaged landscapes In a nutshell Wild vicuñas in the Peruvian Andes create communal bathroom spots (latrines) that transform ...

Nasa said that the findings do not show evidence for life itself, but they do suggest the conditions necessary for the emergence of life were widespread across the early solar system.

Reconnaissance is a word often associated with a military’s observation of a region to locate an enemy or strategic features ...

By depositing substantial piles of dung, vicuñas are speeding up plant colonization on freshly deglaciated terrain.

The natural world is a finely-tuned balance of biotic (living) and abiotic (nonliving) components that shape our environments. Various biotic factors directly affect processes like population growth, ...

Relatives of the llama are dropping dung as they venture into higher elevations in the Andes Mountains, providing a ...

The microbes were found in the Amazonian peatlands of Peru and could be valuable for sequestering carbon in the damp soils.

The global food system contributes up to 35% of all climate-warming pollution. LanzaTech's microbe-based protein could be a ...

Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the ...