Efforts to mitigate the impacts of climate change have focused largely on the protection of tropical forests like the Amazon ...

Tropical storms pummeled the land and ravaged ecosystems. Powerful floods engulfed streets and left cars stuck in mud. And ...

Of the numerous anthropogenic pressures that are being exerted on ecosystems globally, plastic pollution and climate change are potentially the most ...

Wisconsin winters are warming. The trend is one element of climate change that we are seeing and feeling. Next week WUWM is airing a series of stories exploring some of the facets of what scientists ...

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? The answer is a resounding yes—and we know this for certain because of the vast network of audio recorders that ...

XINING -- Chinese scientists have proposed new insights into how alpine ecosystem carbon cycling may respond to long-term climate change via a long-term study of plant phenological events in alpine ...

Many ecosystems on Earth are affected by pulses of activity: temperature swings between seasons, incoming and outgoing tides, the yearly advent of rainy periods. These variations can play an important ...

Only 7% of Europe's original area of peatlands remain. What's more: their climate boundaries are shifting. An international ...

Climate change is making plastic pollution more mobile, toxic, and widespread, accelerating risks for wildlife, ecosystems, and people.

UNKNOWN to many is the existence of blue carbon ecosystems that can sequester up to five times more carbon dioxide than ...