Since Monday, a series of storms has drenched much of California and dumped feet of snow in the Sierra. It's led to a deadly ...

In the late 20th century, Costa Rica — a Central American nation a little smaller than West Virginia — had one of the highest deforestation rates in the world. The country was losing more than 100,000 ...

Rainfall is often treated as a gift of geography — a function of latitude, oceans, and atmospheric circulation. A growing ...

Every year, tropical forests release countless litres of water into the atmosphere, generating rain. New research has estimated the value of this ecosystem service at billions of pounds every year, ...

Deforestation in the Amazon is making the region hotter and drier, with less rainfall as the forest loses its ability to ...

The Amazon rainforest is of crucial importance to the Earth's ecosystem, given its capacity to store substantial amounts of ...

Deforestation in the Amazon is causing significant regional changes in climate compared to areas with forest cover above 80%.

Key climate tipping points may be closer than expected, raising the risk of accelerating warming, sea-level rise, and ...

For decades, a dominant argument for protecting forests has focused on carbon. Trees absorb carbon dioxide, store it in wood ...

Climate change brings Earth’s tipping points closer to collapse, threatening to unleash devastating, permanent environmental ...

In a community centre in the heart of Ghana’s cocoa-rich Sui River region in western Ghana, two dozen people gather to ...

Scientists first outlined the prospect of a Hothouse Earth in 2018, warning that cascading tipping points could lock the planet into sustained warming well above 4C for thousands of years. The new ...