Growing rice alongside aquatic animals can reduce the need for chemical fertilisers and pesticides, as well as increase farmers' yields, shows a study published today in eLife.

Because animals there often have smaller ranges to begin with, habitat loss hits them especially hard. For example, 98 percent of lemurs, primates that only exist in Madagascar, are threatened ...

With parts of China experiencing record high temperatures and heavy rains, reports of farm animals and crops suffering from extreme weather patterns are dominating headlines in the country ...