Securing plant production is a global task. Using a combination of new molecular and statistical methods, a research team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) was able to show that material from gene banks can be used to improve traits in the maize plant. Old varieties can thus help to breed new varieties adapted to current and future climates.

The effects of climate change are sometimes difficult to grasp, but now a virtual reality forest, created by geographers, can let people walk through a simulated forest of today and see what various futures may hold for the trees.

The late fall season sampling indicates that delays in sea ice formation are supporting late-season biological production that has not been commonly observed before.

Warm, moist rivers of air may have continent-wide effects and influence climate change.

Carbon dioxide fuels photosynthesis, the process by which plants generate their food in the form of carbohydrates. 

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Climate change is causing hurricanes that make landfall to take more time to weaken, reports a study published today in leading journal, Nature.

Across the continental United States, massive, often-devastating precipitation events — the kind that climate scientists have long called “hundred-year storms” — could become three times more likely and 20% more severe by 2079.

August wildfires burned tens of thousands of acres in seven UC natural reserves, including a quarter of UC Berkeley’s Hastings Natural History Reservation in Carmel Valley.

The category 4 storm caused deadly flooding and landslides in Nicaragua, Honduras, and Guatemala.