Climate change is impacting the world around us. The long-term shift in weather patterns has resulted in hotter temperatures, rising sea levels and the loss of wildlife. It has affected agriculture ...

Reduced snow cover and vegetation shifts in the Alps, driven, to some degree, by climate change, are leading some mountain ecosystems to struggle to hold onto nutrients that feed vegetation, a new ...

Wildfires are back. On a single day—July 16, 2024—732,099 acres burned, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. Agency data also showed that of 59 active large fires, only four were ...

Brazilian scientists have pioneered a new vegetation model with a broader array of life strategies that is expected to provide a more accurate representation of the Amazon ecosystem’s functioning and ...

The vegetation in northern high latitudes was likely dense forest before cooling temperatures transformed it into grassland during the Late Miocene —a shift that further accelerated global cooling.

Tundra plants can eek out an existence in the very short summers of the Canadian High Arctic such as here on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut. (Anne Bjorkman, University of Gothenburg) Rapid climate change ...

Over half of U.S. utilities have updated vegetation management approaches because of climate change and 82% have or are looking to use digital tools to upgrade operations. This is in response to ...

This study is finished by a team of Prof. Xiayun Xiao (Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences). Based on a well-dated, high-resolution sediment core from the Chaohu ...