Plants play a key role in regulating Earth's climate, but recent research suggests that rising temperatures could disrupt ...

Plants survive climate change using genetic variations. Scientists studied Marchantia polymorpha to find key adaptation ...

Rising temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns in West Africa, which supplies around 70% of the world's cacao, are ...

Extreme fire seasons in recent years highlight the urgent need to better understand wildfires within the broader context of ...

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Cathy Whitlock, Regents Professor ...

The Trump administration’s decision to fire 3,400 workers and pause funds used for wildfire prevention comes as wildfires are ...

A new climate modeling study presents a new scenario of how climate and life on our planet would change in response to a potential future strike of a medium-sized (~500 m) asteroid.

Climate scientists present a realistic supercomputer simulation that resolves the complex interactions between fire, vegetation, smoke and the atmosphere. The authors find that increasing greenhouse ...

Earth system models are essential tools for studying complex planetary processes, including interactions between the atmosphere and biosphere.

Alpine plants, fragile and adapted to live in a limited ecosystem, may be the canary in the coal mine of climate change.