MOREHEAD, Ky. — To harvest tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers, to clip herbs, to prune and propagate succulents, people work in oppressive heat and humidity. Some wring out shirts soaked with sweat. Some ...

At first, the seeds looked to eight-year-old Kelsei Douglas like eggs. She examined them, rolling the granules between her right index finger and the small concave of her left palm, and instead ...

Fertilizers are the largest source of emissions from the agriculture industry. The key to helping curb greenhouse gas emissions from the agriculture industry may be hidden just beneath the surface.

What would it mean to climate change to remove 12 million gas-powered passenger vehicles from the roads of the U.S.? Katina Hanson, acting senior advisor for climate smart commodities at the U.S.

At Amana Farms in eastern Iowa, some 2,500 Angus cattle stand at a rail waiting for their breakfast. A truck drives slowly down the line, dumping a mix of hay, corn and distillers grains into the ...

Researchers have significantly improved the performance of numerical predictions for agricultural nitrous oxide emissions that could significantly reduce greenhouse gases from agriculture. A team of ...

INSTITUTE, W.Va. — West Virginia State University President Ericke Cage says the recently-welcomed new greenhouses on campus will continue to boost their ongoing agricultural research and development.

Importing food threatens food security. Can innovative greenhouse technologies located in renewable energy locations reduce the risk? As in many countries, the United States’ food system has become ...

The building provided areas for the cultivation of fruits and leafy vegetables in four climate zones as well as research facilities for Inagro, the Flemish research institute for agriculture and ...

The water-filled ditches that laced through the oil palm plantation in Sarawak, a Malaysian state on the island of Borneo, ...

Emissions from food production, already considered one of the biggest contributors to climate change, have been underestimated for decades, potentially skewing the pledges that countries have made ...

The number of greenhouse and nursery workers has increased by over 16,000 people in recent years, according to data from the latest U.S. agricultural census. Some work in conventional operations like ...