Great hopes are placed on a new way to combat plant diseases, using RNA to turn off genes that the pathogen needs to initiate ...

Ground beef is a staple for many consumers in the U.S., but with high volumes comes the inevitable risk of contamination.

Poor sanitation at Virginia Boar's Head plant caused a deadly listeria outbreak that killed 10 and sickened 61 last summer.

DNR aerially surveyed 17.5 million acres of Minnesota for damage to forests in 2024. Since the early 1950s, aerial surveys ...

Twenty-three years after the first detections were reported, chronic wasting disease continues to spread geographically and ...

As farmers prepare for the 2025 growing season scouting efforts, there are a couple new diseases that have not yet been ...

German authorities confirmed the country's first outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in nearly 40 years on Friday in a herd of water buffalo on the outskirts of Berlin. Foot-and-mouth disease causes ...

Shelter-in-place means staying indoors, shutting all windows and doors. Under this order, you’ll have to prepare to ...

The Biden White House is expected to formally propose a plan ordering cigarette nicotine levels to be reduced dramatically.

Jan. 20 is the fifth anniversary of the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the United States. __ Susan Scarbro stares down a ...

As fire crews and air tankers work to block the wildfires' explosive growth, images of red clouds of fire retardant falling onto trees are common. What is it — and what's in it?