Some of the plants that make familiar landscapes recognizable may not survive by century's end as climate change becomes an ...

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 ...

Global warming extinctions usually have people picturing the last polar bears or other furry critters disappearing.

Get ready for a biology lesson. Certain plants have extra sets of chromosomes. And it turns out, it's a useful trait for a ...

Climate change poses a major geopolitical and economic threat, reshaping coastlines, opening the Arctic, driving migration, ...

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

A new study led by researchers from the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed significant increases in global vegetation growth under different ...

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.

Gardeners are flocking to climate-resilient species amid concerns about extreme heat, flooding, and pollinator survival.

A new paper calls for ecologists and evolutionary biologists to consider how organisms experience climate rather than how ...

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 ...