To curb greenhouse gas emissions, nations, states, and cities should aim for a mix of fuel-saving, flexible, and highly reliable sources.
Adding Power Choices Reduces Cost and Risk of Carbon-Free Electricity
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Large-Scale Wind and Solar Farms in the Sahara Would Increase Heat, Rain, Vegetation
Wind and solar farms are known to have local effects on heat, humidity and other factors that may be beneficial – or detrimental – to the regions in which they are situated.
Invasive Pines Fueled Knysna Fires
The replacement of natural fynbos vegetation with pine plantations in the southern Cape, and the subsequent invasion of surrounding land by invasive pine trees, significantly increased the severity of the 2017 Knysna wildfires.
Birds Retreating from Climate Change and Deforestation in Honduras Cloud Forests
Bird diversity shifts upslope in tropical mountainous terrain.
Cover the U.S. in 89 Percent Trees—Or Go Solar
How many fields of switchgrass and forests of trees would be needed to offset the energy produced by burning coal? A lot, it turns out.
Researchers Model Tree Species Distributions in Amazonia
Researchers from the Amazon Research Team of the University of Turku have succeeded in producing distribution maps for a selection of important tropical tree species in Peruvian lowland Amazonia.
