At the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, 10 of the world’s largest commodity traders published a ‘shared commitment’ to halting forest loss

Farming techniques that keep rainwater in agricultural soils could help mitigate shortages in arid regions

Scientists are measuring emissions from dying mangrove forests in order to learn something about soaring global levels of the greenhouse gas.

Climate pattern influences only near-equatorial cyclones in Indian Ocean

A study of vegetation change in tropical western Africa over the last 500,000 years finds that atmospheric carbon dioxide levels had a surprisingly small effect on the extent of woody cover.

Just over 9,900 wildfires burned about 4.3 million acres in 2020. 

With about one-third of the world’s corals currently under threat of extinction due to climate change, Curtin researchers have made the encouraging discovery of a ‘lost’ species of coral that had been hidden for more than 50 years.

By early May 2022, nearly a quarter million acres had burned in New Mexico, almost double the annual total of 2021.

Frozen hydrate crystals packed into tiny nanopores on ocean floors may hold the answer

The São Francisco River drainage basin in Brazil’s Northeast region contains a substantial portion of the savanna-like Cerrado biome as well as large areas of Caatinga semi-arid thorn forest and some smaller fragments of Atlantic Rainforest.