Climate Change

Seagrass meadows might not catch the eye like coral reefs, but they play an important and often unsung role in coastal protection, particularly as climate change increasingly eats away at shorelines. Protecting and restoring seagrass meadows, experts say, is a key “nature-based solution” that can also soak up and store…

Biodiversity, Conservation, Editors' Choice, Environment, Featured, Global, Headlines, Natural Resources, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva United Nations Conservation Protection of key habitats and dedicated efforts to tackle poaching in a coordinated way have allowed the sea turtle to bounce back. Credit: Jordan Robins / Ocean Image Bank SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan & SHRINGAR,…

The Winter Olympics just showcased alpine sport at its most spectacular and universal. But in the mountains themselves, access to winter sports is becoming increasingly unequal. The cost of keeping slopes open in a warming climate is climbing – and so are prices for visitors. Investment will be concentrated in…

The Arctic has been in the news a lot lately. Between the increased geopolitical interest in Greenland, claims over sovereignty, resource exploitation and the devastating impacts of climate change, the region has become a sentinel for global change. But away from these headlines, a quieter crisis is unfolding that threatens…

We’ve painted ourselves into a corner on climate change — our planet is going to exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming. And while greenhouse gas emissions aren’t rising as fast as they used to, we’re still emitting carbon dioxide at record-high levels, so further warming is inevitable. Stopping Earth from…

Planting trees is a vital strategy to combat both climate change and the biodiversity crisis. As forests grow, they sponge carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and provide renewed habitat for threatened animals, plants, fungi and countless unseen lifeforms. That ability of forests to help slow climate change has driven a…

The flowering times for many plant species have shifted due to climate change, with most of the change occurring in temperate zones. Researchers assumed the tropics, which are largely the same temperature year-round, would be insulated from such climate change-driven changes to flowering times. However, a new study challenges that…

Rising sea levels due to climate change may threaten tens of millions more people than previously thought, according to a new report. Writing in the journal Nature, researchers say that 90 percent of scientific studies use erroneous data when calculating the height of baseline coastal waters...Read More

Brazil bet big on a mega river dam using old data, but climate change is leaving its massive turbines high and dry...Read More

America’s national parks were conceived as sanctuaries from the forces remaking the rest of the continent. Climate change is now breaching that boundary. A recent assessment of park vulnerability suggests that many of these landscapes are not simply warming or drying in familiar ways. They are being pushed toward ecological…