The source of a region's rainfall -- whether it comes from the ocean or the land -- can be a key indicator of how vulnerable ...

The study, published recently in Nature Sustainability, offers a new way to pinpoint vulnerable farming regions and guide ...

When farmland is abandoned and allowed to return to nature, forests and grasslands naturally regrow and absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere—helping fight climate change.

The European Union is considering a brake clause to weaken its 2040 climate target in the future, if it becomes clear ...

Rainfall interception in forest ecosystems is a critical hydrological process whereby a portion of precipitation is captured by the canopy and subsequently redistributed via evaporation, throughfall, ...

For over 50 years each spring, researchers with Connecticut’s Great Mountain Forest, nestled in the Litchfield Hills, have been recording how early three Persian Lilac trees begin to bud and flower.

The Democratic Republic of Congo government has opened bids for oil and gas drilling across huge swathes of the country, ...

A new report by an industry watchdog adds to growing scientific consensus that as forests are felled to make way for coffee ...