All major components of our environment - land, water, and air - have been affected in pervasive ... and biodiversity loss have detrimental effects on the very ecosystem services that support local ...

and coastal estuaries are all aquatic ecosystems—critical elements of Earth’s dynamic processes and essential to human economies and health. Wetlands connect land and water, serving as natural ...

Often conjuring images of dank, smelly, mosquito-infested wastelands, upon closer look, wetlands are actually biologically diverse and productive ecosystems ... land is covered by shallow water.

The terrestrial biosphere is assumed to take up most of the carbon on land ... inland water surface area, water residence time and concentrations of organic carbon in these ecosystems.

Wetlands are ecosystems, in which water is the primary factor controlling ... Alhough they cover only around 6 per cent of the Earth’s land surface, 40 per cent of all plant and animal species ...

The villagers collect dry wood, but the loggers take living trees. And where there are no trees, the sudden rain sweeps ...

The study provides the first experimental demonstration of the potential impacts of climate change on water movement through grassland ecosystems, which make up nearly 40% of Earth's land area and ...