Author: Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources

Aquaculture now supplies half of the seafood and fisheries products consumed worldwide and is gaining international significance as a source of foo...

During the last century and today, the Tennessee walking horse has been used primarily for pleasure and show competition. Unique and natural to the...

As a living substrate, soil is critical to the function of Earth's geophysical and chemical properties. Soil also plays a major role in several hum...

Research and innovation in the life sciences is driving rapid growth in agriculture, biomedical science, information science and computing, energy,...

Understanding, quantifying, and tracking atmospheric methane and emissions is essential for addressing concerns and informing decisions that affect...

The American chestnut, whitebark pine, and several species of ash in the eastern United States are just a few of the North American tree species th...

To achieve goals for climate and economic growth, negative emissions technologies (NETs) that remove and sequester carbon dioxide from the air will...

For nearly a century, scientific advances have fueled progress in U.S. agriculture to enable American producers to deliver safe and abundant food d...

Since 1944, the National Research Council (NRC) has published seven editions of the Nutrient Requirements of Dairy Cattle. This reference has guide...

Climate change is fundamentally changing ecosystems and their fire conditions, and the 2023 fire season highlighted the urgency of developing and i...

How we produce and consume food has a bigger impact on Americans' well-being than any other human activity. The food industry is the largest sector...

Recent outbreaks of illnesses traced to contaminated sprouts and lettuce illustrate the holes that exist in the system for monitoring problems and ...

Huanglongbing (HLB) or citrus greening, first observed more than a hundred years ago in Asia, is the most serious disease threat to the citrus-grow...

Although ecosystems, humans, and fire have coexisted for millennia, changes in geology, ecology, hydrology, and climate as well as sociocultural, r...

H1N1 (swine flu), SARS, mad cow disease, and HIV/AIDS are a few examples of zoonotic diseases-diseases transmitted between humans and animals. Zoon...