A corn plant knows how to find water in soil with the very tips of its roots, but some varieties, including many used for ...

Historically destructive wildfires continue to devastate Los Angeles. While the fires may not be new to Southern California, ...

Water managers aren’t in for the exceptional year they had hoped for, with snowpack across the West underperforming in the ...

USAID was a key player in renewable energy and disaster protection around the world — until Elon Musk showed up.

A recent study published in the Journal of Ecology, led by the UAB and CREAF, analyzes 25 years of evolution of 445,000 trees ...

ONE OF THE DIFFICULTIES of being alive on earth in the age of climate catastrophe is that we find ourselves in the peculiar position of mourning the future.

Those of us whose jobs are spent inside buildings might be concerned about climate change but it’s nothing compared to folks ...

By the 2080s, climate change will mean most of Britain’s peatlands could be too dry to form new peat. That’s the stark ...

The study highlights the urgent need to safeguard global tropical wetlands from human impact. Complex organisms, thousands of ...

Scientists discovered microbes in Amazon peatlands that control carbon storage. If peatlands stay stable, they store carbon.

The mountains and foothills of Los Angeles County are in “extreme drought” conditions, about 36% of the county, explained ...

Protecting and conserving our natural heritage, predicting weather and environmental conditions, preventing and managing pollution, promoting clean growth and a sustainable environment for present and ...