Around the world, rainforests are becoming savanna or farmland, savanna is drying out and turning into desert, and icy tundra is thawing. Indeed, scientific studies have now recorded "regime shifts" ...

RENO, Nev. — The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has curated a special journal issue to discuss climate change adaptability in California. Researchers from the University of ...

As ecosystems degrade at an alarming rate, humanity must find new ways to value the natural world so it isn’t lost forever. Some economists and environmentalists say that to protect nature, we must ...

Emmanuel O. Akindele works for Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, and received funding from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for a research fellowship at the Leibniz Institute of ...

Wildfires have long been a facet of California’s ecosystem, as varied forest land covers much of the state and often benefits from some types of fire. Indigenous communities were using controlled ...