The Amazon rainforest gets all the attention, but the neighboring cerrado stores massive amounts of carbon in its peaty soils ...

The Amazon rainforest is famous for storing massive amounts of carbon in its trees and soils, helping regulate the global climate. Yet a paper ...

When climate change is discussed, whether at UN climate summits, in company boardrooms or in the media, the focus is often on mitigation (cutting greenhouse gas emissions to achieve net zero).

Establishing forests can capture carbon and boost biodiversity — but some biomes are a better bet than others, a recent study ...

In the vast golden grasslands of sub-Saharan Africa, the secretary bird makes an unforgettable sight — long-legged, crested, ...

Go behind the scenes with reporters Kiley Bense and Georgina Gustin as they discuss how agriculture is devouring the world’s grasslands, savannas and wetlands.

Fed up with a lack of action on climate change, some students are researching dimming the sun despite the pushback from other scientists.

But new research published this week finds that non-forest ecosystems—the world’s grasslands, savannas, and wetlands—are being devoured for agriculture at nearly four times the rate as forests. As ...

Rising temperatures may tip Earth systems into states of irreversible destabilization, scientists argue in a new paper. Credit: Eelco Böhtlingk/Unsplash Earth systems may be on the brink of long-term, ...

The Cincinnati Zoo is mourning the death of one of its longtime cheetah ambassadors.The zoo shared 13-year-old Savanna the cheetah died over the weekend.Savanna was a single cub whose mother couldn't ...

CLIMATEWIRE | President Donald Trump is withdrawing the United States from the world’s overarching treaty on climate change in a move that escalates his attempts to reverse years of global ...