Microplastics could be disrupting how oceans absorb and store carbon, potentially undermining a natural buffer that helps ...

For decades, climate policy has leaned on a comforting assumption: that as humans emit more carbon dioxide, plants will ...

For centuries, scientists have known that plants "breathe" through microscopic pores on their leaves called stomata. These ...

A new leaf imaging system lets scientists watch plant stomata control water loss and carbon uptake in real time.

Scientists have created a new way to watch plants breathe—live and in high definition—while tracking exactly how much carbon ...

For many years, scientists believed rising CO₂ levels would help Earth’s plants significantly slow climate change. As carbon dioxide increased in the atmosphere, plants were expected to grow faster ...

CO2 can stimulate plant growth, but only when enough nitrogen is available—and that key ingredient has been seriously ...

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The world’s oceans are becoming dangerously acidic. A controversial proposal would raise the pH — by mixing chemicals into ...

Five students at Dow High School in Midland, Mich., have co-authored research about agriculture in space that will soon ...

Nat Pat, the Australian brand behind BuzzPatch, aka brightly coloured mosquito repellent stickers that have gone properly ...