Analysis of data on 971 bird species in natural habitat and cattle pasture in Colombia finds that near-national-scale losses of bird diversity greatly exceed losses recorded at the local scale, sugges...

Scientific Data - Snow melt-out date (SMOD) change spanning four decades in European temperate mountains at 30 m from Landsat time series

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White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted

What’s new: Almost half of global average temperature rise and a third of sea-level rise can be attributed to the “carbon majors,” the world’s 122 largest fossil fuel and cement producers, a recent…

Rita grew up in a small village in Uttarakhand with mountains forming the backbone of her childhood. In a recent call with her sister, she laughed, repeating a little rhyme they used to recite as…

Researchers cite £2.4bn annual cost of flooding and say a third of England’s critical infrastructure is at risk

The infrastructure required to host climate talks in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.

Understanding the capacity of forests to adapt to climate change is of pivotal importance for conservation science, yet this is still widely unknown. This knowledge gap is particularly acute in high-b...

Ein Waldbrand in Schwarzau im Gebirge (Bezirk Neunkirchen) hat Samstagmittag einen Großeinsatz der Feuerwehr und Polizei ausgelöst. Das Feuer breitete sich im hochalpinen Gelände aus. Ursache soll ein...

Growing up, Sabrina Valenti felt like she was genetically predetermined to work for the government. Her dad’s father was in the Navy. Her dad was in the Air Force. Two of her uncles served in the arme...

Data from a variety of sources—including satellite, climate and soil data, as well as field-collected information on plant traits—are pooled and analysed to map the functional diversity of tropical fo...

A recent study in Ecological Solutions and Evidence shows just how complicated and challenging it is to achieve carbon sequestration goals through forest management — but not impossible. The research ...

Many of the nations gathering in Rome for Cop16 have offered no plans to honour their agreement to protect 30% of land and sea for nature

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A senior executive at HSBC bank has claimed that “investors should not worry about climate risk,” sparking widespread concerns about the financial sector's real view of the climate crisis.

The difference between the number of men and women listed as authors on scientific papers and inventors on patents is at least partly attributable to unacknowledged contributions by women scientists.

The latest preliminary data from Finland's 2023 greenhouse gas inventory reveals that forests have shifted from being a carbon sink to a carbon source. The latest inventory indicates that forests beca...

Critical CO2 stores held in permafrost are being released as the landscape changes with global heating, report shows

The late-Quaternary megafauna extinctions: Patterns, causes, ecological consequences and implications for ecosystem management in the Anthropocene - Volume 2

Biomass energy subsidies in South Korea and Japan are threatening Southeast Asia’s tropical forests, warns a new report by environmental NGOs. Of particular concern is the nascent but rapidly growing ...

Tropical forest landscapes are increasingly being modified by human activities. Here the authors apply a causal inference approach to Neotropical forest data to disentangle the role of landscape-level...

Mapping the extent, management and condition of the world’s grasslands

Report calls for course correction to avoid land abuse ‘compromising Earth’s capacity to support human and environmental wellbeing’

According to a landmark new study, 102 million hectares (Mha) (252 million acres) of land — an area the size of Egypt — have been converted to crops since the start of the 21st century. To put this in...

Attribution studies calculate whether, and by how much, climate change affected the intensity, frequency or impact of extremes – Carbon Brief has mapped every published study on how climate change has...