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As warming temperatures enable tall fescue to move northward, scientists and ranchers are racing to stop its expansion.

Climate change — and plant disease in Florida — means that citrus can now grow in Georgia, a state known for its iconic peaches.

Microbe-fighting molecules that once existed in Neanderthals and Denisovans have been re-created in the lab and tested in mice

A dye used in medical imaging appeared to make the death cap's toxin less fatal to mice in a new study

Researchers in Kotzebue, Alaska, are investigating why their town is increasingly playing host to harmful cyanobacteria.

After a major fish kill in 2008, researchers in the remote Arctic village of Kotzebue, Alaska, started investigating cyanobacteria blooms in the seas around them.

Researchers in Kotzebue, Alaska, are investigating why their town is increasingly playing host to harmful cyanobacteria.

Scientists are reassessing dated data in the time of the Cloud.

Alaska's coastal erosion problems have led to a growing field of research into what can be done about it.

Saima Sidik is a freelance science writer based in Somerville, Massachusetts. When she’s not writing, she enjoys biking around the city, puttering in her garden, and practicing taekwondo.