As climate change drives increasingly severe hurricanes, U.S. coastal communities are bearing the brunt of mounting losses. With regulations failing to curb the damage, homeowners have become the front line of
An app built on an off-the-grid ranch in rural Sonoma County, California, supported by solar panels, satellite internet service and a small nonprofit team, is serving as a critical tech hub
Ecological warning lights have blinked on across the Arctic over the last 40 years, according to new research, and many of the fastest-changing areas are clustered in Siberia, the Canadian Northwest
Understanding and monitoring ecological responses is important as droughts last longer
Bolivia’s vast forests, including ecosystems of global conservation interest such as the Amazon rainforest and the Chiquitano dry forest (1), are threatened by increasing deforestation (2) and fires (3). Government authorities
Persistent multiyear drought (MYD) events pose a growing threat to nature and humans in a changing climate. We identified and inventoried global MYDs by detecting spatiotemporally contiguous climatic anomalies, showing that
Soil water sustains terrestrial life, yet its fate is uncertain under a changing climate. We conducted a deuterium labeling experiment to determine whether elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), warming, and drought
Eaton fire tore through Altadena, burning buildings and killing many. Its residents are only now taking in the scale of devastationA week after wildfires tore through the community of Altadena, the
Led by WWF and published Wednesday in the inaugural issue of Nature Reviews Biodiversity, the study shows that while the concept of Nature’s Contributions to People (NCP) is well-established in science,
Calculating air pollution from wildfires and other events has become more complicated. That doesn’t mean it’s necessarily more accurate.