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 ...

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

A key question in any discussion about climate is "How much rain fell?" But perhaps there is an even more important one. Like any household budget, the global water economy is based on "income," that ...

Reduced snow cover and vegetation shifts in the Alps, driven, to some degree, by climate change, are leading some mountain ecosystems to struggle to hold onto nutrients that feed vegetation, a new ...

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 ...

Climate Engine is partnering with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to guide drought planning on BLM-managed lands with support from NOAA’s National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) The ...

Over half of U.S. utilities have updated vegetation management approaches because of climate change and 82% have or are looking to use digital tools to upgrade operations. This is in response to ...

In a paper published in Science China Earth Sciences, a new study based on the sediment core from Lake Chaohu in the middle and lower reaches of Yangtze River presents the evolution histories of ...

New climate maps show wild wheat and barley grew in much smaller areas than thought, narrowing early farming origins.