Deforestation in the Amazon is causing significant regional changes in climate compared to areas with forest cover above 80%.

Sharp changes could result in a cascade of subsystem interactions that would steer the planet toward extreme warming and sea ...

Today we are going to talk about an investigation warning that in a great part of the African continent, extreme heat may stop being occasional and become a ...

Key climate tipping points may be closer than expected, raising the risk of accelerating warming, sea-level rise, and ...

Getirana highlighted that Brazil’s emerging water crisis is rooted in longstanding political and cultural practices: “Many of Brazil’s political and economic decisions have been based on the idea that ...

For decades, a dominant argument for protecting forests has focused on carbon. Trees absorb carbon dioxide, store it in wood ...

Most countries have a dominant climate or landform, but a few nations display extreme geographical diversity. Among them, one country stands out for hosting some of the driest deserts on Earth as well ...

Deforestation in the Amazon is making the region hotter and drier, with less rainfall as the forest loses its ability to ...

Standing atop Biosphere 2’s iconic rooftop dressed in the same spacesuit George Clooney wore in the 2013 film “Gravity,” ...