Plant diseases and pests cause considerable crop losses and threaten global food security

Microplastic research must be global and include a greater understanding about the scale, fate, and effects of microplastic pollution at all stages

The new process utilizes a plasma in combination with non-noble metal catalysts to generate ammonia at much milder conditions than is possible with the currently-used Haber-Bosch process

Columbia Engineers demonstrate the key role of vegetation in responding to rising CO2 levels and show how plants will regulate future dryness

Research results provide an important framework to evaluate other seagrass and estuarine habitats that tend to have lower inherent buffering capacity and large natural variations in chemistry

Element measured in marine environment years after phasing out of leaded fuel

About 25 percent of the world’s food supply is discarded or burned because of contamination or spoilage

A passive, durable, and effective method of water collection, fog harvesting consists of catching the microscopic droplets of water suspended in the wind that make up fog

Biodiversity—the essential variety of life forms on Earth—continues to decline in every region of the world, significantly reducing nature’s capacity to contribute to people’s well-being

JBEI enzyme discovery enables first-time microbial production of an aromatic biofuel

Childhood lead exposure was a problem in Flint long before the water crisis, but young children’s exposure to the toxin has been steadily declining since 2006

A high-resolution laser helped to unveil scientific clues that were lying in plain sight and yet remarkably went unnoticed until now