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Earth and Environment

Earth and Environment

Wheat grant

Plant pathologist receives grant to develop disease management tools for wheat

A new grant will allow C-CHANGE to develop profitable methods for transitioning lands usually devoted to annual crops to renewable energy production fueled by native grasses and forbs.

Harnessing biomass, manure to fuel farms through multi-institutional project

management burn

Climate scientists increasingly ignore ecological role of Indigenous peoples

Gary Thompson

Gary Thompson leaves his mark on Penn State's agricultural research enterprise

Large cracks in the surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet, called crevasses, reveal ice sheet flow from inland to coast.

Greenland bedrock drilling project to understand past, future ice sheet melting

Telica volcano

Photos may improve understanding of volcanic processes

Blue-winged and golden-winged warblers

What determines a warbler's colors?

Portrait of Nastaran Tebyanian

Stuckeman School graduate student awarded Scientific Merit Award

Bumble bee in flight

NSF CAREER grant supports entomologist in study of sterility mechanisms in bees

Young man smiling and wearing a jacket and tie

Engineering student researches antibiotic removal method for water supply

novel corn line header image

Antioxidants in corn line could aid human IBD protection, therapy

land and water revisited 1961 to 2019 Sometimes you have to look back to move ahead

'Land and Water Revisited' to livestream for premiere

Rain grant awardee Vitamin K

Grants move College of Ag Sciences research toward commercialization

Supercell thunderstorm over Needmore, Texas in May 2019

Knowledge of severe storm patterns may improve tornado warnings

Cuckoo bee (Apidae: Nomada sp.)

Checklist of Pa. bees documents 49 new species and some that may be endangered

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