Agriculture

A banana-killing fungus has finally reached Latin America, as scientists long feared it would.

Thousands of years ago, fallout from volcanic activity may have sounded a death knell for an Egyptian dynasty.

Chickens' staggering popularity as a food source has come at an enormous cost — to chickens and to people.

The biological and physical changes happening on Earth due to climate change will transform food production, researchers say.

Simulated "Martian gardens" are helping NASA scientists learn which plants astronauts will be able to grow in future missions to the Red Planet.

Cereals are not just for breakfast — and with grain yields falling, expect to feel the impact.

A new gene in a strain of Escherichia coli (E. coli) not only protects the bacteria against last-defense antibiotics, but is easily shared among microbial species.

The ongoing civil war in Syria has led to the first-ever withdrawal from the Svalbard "doomsday" Global Seed Vault.