Disease raises fears for plants
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Trees and plants are to be cut down in woodland near Redruth in southwest England after the discovery of a new disease.
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Warnings could be introduced after analysis confirms high levels of bacteria and viruses.
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Storms probably carried soybean rust spores into Louisiana this year. Next year, Iowa might be hit. Washington, DC - A fungus that can seriously damage soybean plants has been spotted in Louisiana, the first
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new study shows that genes from genetically engineered grass can spread much farther than previously known, a finding that raises questions about the straying of other plants altered through
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Kew Gardens says human-induced warming is damaging plant life and calls for emissions cuts.
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Outbreaks have caused the produce industry, long wary of regulation, to ask for more government oversight.
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After decades of spreading the fungus across the globe, the wind was expected to bring soybean rust to the United States to threaten crop production and carry a hefty
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Some 5,500 pounds of basil grown in Mexico and sold in the United States has been recalled because of fears it may be infected with salmonella, a spokesman for the importer said Thursday.
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Habitat loss, climate change and infectious diseases are pushing a growing number of species toward extinction, according to a report yesterday by the World Conservation Union.
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By Wang Ying  Large-scale algae outbreaks are once again posing a threat to the drinking water supplies from Taihu and Chaohu lakes.
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A mysterious disease is killing  off U.S. honeybees, threatening to disrupt pollination of a  range of crops and costing beekeepers hundreds of thousands of  dollars, industry experts said on Monday.
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Scores of infectious diseases have emerged to threaten humans in the past decades as viruses leap the species barrier from wild animals and bacteria mutate into antibiotic-resistant strains, scientists reported on Wednesday.
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As rains dilute the salt water and create stagnant pools that could serve as breeding grounds for mosquitoes, fears have arisen about a surge in viral and parasitic diseases.
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By Story by RICK NATHANSON Illustration by CATHRYN CUNNINGHAM Of the Journal  At the beginning of the summer, people were facing tough choices about which plants they might be willing to let die during what seemed like a dry cycle with no end.
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Diagnosticians at USDA&#39;s National Plant Germplasm and Biotechnology Laboratory in Beltsville, Md., have confirmed the presence of Phakopsora pachyrhizi, or soybean rust, today on soybean leaf samples collected from areas in Louisiana and one location in
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Reports of a disease in birds is under investigation in north Wales, the assembly government announces.
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Spreading plantations are blamed for a threat to wildlife.