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 ...

Some of the plants that make familiar landscapes recognizable may not survive by century's end as climate change becomes an ...

A new paper calls for ecologists and evolutionary biologists to consider how organisms experience climate rather than how ...

The vegetation in northern high latitudes was likely dense forest before cooling temperatures transformed it into grassland during the Late Miocene —a shift that further accelerated global cooling.

Climate change poses a major geopolitical and economic threat, reshaping coastlines, opening the Arctic, driving migration, ...

Global warming extinctions usually have people picturing the last polar bears or other furry critters disappearing.

Why do some plants thrive in specific regions but not in others? A study led by researchers at the University of Göttingen explores the factors shaping plant distributions and how these patterns have ...

A new study led by researchers from the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed significant increases in global vegetation growth under different ...

Wildfires raging this week in southern Georgia and northern Florida were fueled by a combination of hot and windy conditions, severe drought and dried-out vegetation from past hurricanes all feeding t ...