Unprecedented wildfires in Canada and parts of Amazonia last year were at least three times more likely due to climate change and contributed to high levels of CO2 emissions from burning globally, ...

Human activities such as food production, mining, transportation, and construction have extensively modified Earth’s land and marine environments, causing biodiversity loss, water pollution, soil ...

With climate extremes’ rising frequency and intensity, robust analytical tools are crucial to predict their impacts on terrestrial ecosystems. Machine learning techniques show promise but require well ...

Three keynote speakers set the stage for the workshop for a multifaceted exploration of climate change and human migration. Speakers provided an overview of different approaches to studying the topic, ...

Mineral dust shapes Earth’s climate by influencing sunlight, clouds, nutrient transport, and even how quickly snow melts. But ...

In the race to meet the United Nations' 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Earth observation (EO) satellite data is emerging as a game-changer. These satellites provide high-frequency, ...

Earth is a complex system, with myriad interactions and feedbacks among the atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, cryosphere, and biosphere, as well as the people, institutions, and technologies that ...

In a white paper published by a multidisciplinary team of top scientists in China, Earth system is defined to encompass both internal and external geospheres from solid Earth system through surface ...

Scientists have produced the first detailed global map of deep earthquakes occurring beneath continents, revealing a ...