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Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment
The confluence of the tiny San Pedro River and the much larger Gila was once one of the richest locales in one of the most productive river ecosystems in the American Southwest, an incomparable oasis of biodiversity.
The average body size of humans has fluctuated significantly over the last million years and is strongly linked to temperature.
In the mid-2030s, every U.S. coast will experience rapidly increasing high-tide floods, when a lunar cycle will amplify rising sea levels caused by climate change.
For the hundreds of millions of people living in coastal regions around the world, rising seas driven by climate change pose a direct threat.
From above, the Antarctic Ice Sheet might look like a calm, perpetual ice blanket that has covered Antarctica for millions of years. But the ice sheet can be thousands of meters deep at its thickest, and it hides hundreds of meltwater lakes where its base meets the continent’s bedrock.
Large, smoky fires are raging through forests in northeastern Russia.
