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First broad look at conservation status of animals that transport seeds raises alarms.

Bluetongue spreads rapidly in sheep and cattle in six countries despite vaccination efforts.

Science division gets hit hard to close major funding gap.

Genome sequencing of century-old collection could help breeders restore long-lost traits.

Despite apparently minimal seabird deaths, grave concern for the next breeding season.

A U.S. federal court is examining a controversial link between fluoride and neurotoxicity.

EPA is drawing up new rules for farmers, but some worry the science isn't ready.

Plants bred or engineered to be short can stand up better to windstorms. They could also boost yields and benefit the environment.

Botanists say transferring specimens to distant site is unnecessary and will hamper research.

Concerns rise for boobies, finches, and other endemic species.

Seabed authority fails to finish rules in time, opening the door to the first mining license.

Mines and active combat make fieldwork too risky.

Researchers are closing in on the long-sought goal of creating high-yielding hybrid crops that can be propagated indefinitely, without sex.

"Mammoth" plan to control a coastal invader would benefit migratory birds.

Pact sets framework for creating reserves and sharing profits.

A "creative" strategy to keep crops healthy borrows key pathogen detectors from the animal immune system.

Is raising salmon on land the next big thing in farming fish?

Long-term study in China shows yields hold up and farmers save money and time.

In a first for Europe, country borrows concept from Indigenous science to protect endangered body of water.

H5N1 has continued to kill wild birds and poultry this summer. The fall migration could bring it back in force.

Measures to capture carbon in soil may be less effective than hoped, scientists say.

But more action is needed to reach Biden's pledge to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.

Knocking out a gene boosts precursors of essential nutrient.

To lessen the toll of culling, some countries launch vaccine trials despite trade implications and public health risks.

As largest ever H5N1 outbreak hits poultry and wild species, researchers wonder whether virus is here to stay.

Measurements offer a new window into ecosystem health.

Research could gain from negotiations to reduce, reuse, and recycle the common material.

Food safety agency adopts cautious approach in calling for 100,000-fold cut in allowable exposure to bisphenol A.