Vegetation serves as a dynamic interface between the land, atmosphere, and hydrological cycle, modulating climate feedbacks through evapotranspiration, carbon sequestration, and moisture recycling.

A population boom around Mount Kilimanjaro, not climate change, is responsible for the rapid decline in biodiversity around ...

Modelling climate change over a 500 year period shows that much of the boreal forest, the Earth's northernmost forests and most significant provider of carbon storage and clean water, could be ...

There are many unique and beautiful plants and trees in the world, each inhabiting different biomes from each other and serving different purposes. Yet, no matter how big or small, well-known or ...

As climate change advances, its impacts are not universally equal, with temperature rising differently by latitude and elevation. Climate heterogeneity is the study of this diversity in Earth's ...

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.

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. Another year of record-high temperatures and extreme weather events around the world has brought the dangers of climate change to the ...

An extremely warm summer and fall. An unusually dry winter. Hillsides covered with bone-dry vegetation. And strong Santa Ana winds. In the mix of conditions that have contributed to the most ...

Rising global temperatures could decimate global wine production over the new few decades, according to a study published Tuesday in the science journal Nature. Researchers estimated that as much as ...