Tropical deforestation hit a new high in 2024, fueled by Amazon wildfires and expanding agriculture. Scientists warn the ...

Spring rainfall has helped water levels inch closer to normal after a record-breaking spell without precipitation in the fall ...

The Amazon Basin lost about 27,000 square kilometers of forest each year from 2001 to 2016. By 2021, about 17% of the basin had been deforested.

Researchers found that between 2002 and 2015, a 3.2% reduction in Brazilian forest cover led to a 5.4% reduction in ...

Cities are often much hotter than surrounding areas due to the urban heat island effect. This is because concrete and asphalt ...

BEIJING -- Chinese scientists have released a long-term, high-resolution dataset that tracks global cropland water-use ...

Scorching sun, no shade, and temperatures soaring to 32 degrees Celsius—the relentless heat takes its toll on Auntie Fausty, ...

A research team from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has released a long-term, high-resolution dataset that tracks global cropland water-use ...

Crop coefficients are numbers used to calculate the amount of water a particular crop needs. In an unprecedented study, Ali ...

It’s usually cooler under a forest than outside the forest, but that natural temperature buffering didn’t make global warming any less strong during the last 45 years in an old-growth forest of Oregon ...