Imagine a prairie. How many plant species do you see? Maybe you’re picturing yellow coneflowers, some little bluestem, ...

Have you ever looked at a mountain and wondered why there were trees on one side but none on the other? Or noticed different ...

U.S. land managers have long known that they have a problem on their hands with overgrown forests and persistent drought.

One of the best shooting star displays of the year is coming to a sky near you. The annual Perseid meteor shower is visible ...

The Great Dying led to the loss of forest cover, which eventually aided the event in lasting for five million years by disrupting the carbon cycle.

MET Eireann has issued a heat warning for the entire country this weekend – as they warn of possible forest fires, ...

Roughly 252 million years ago, Earth experienced its deadliest known extinction. Known as the Permian–Triassic Mass ...

A recent study published in Engineering has shed light on the increasing trend of global land surface soil organic carbon (SOC) driven by climate ...

A new study published in Engineering offers insights into how global land surface soil organic carbon (SOC) levels are being ...

In this contribution, we exploit hyperspectral data cubes collected by the PRISMA satellite to develop and test machine learning regression algorithms (MLRAS) for mapping forest traits and estimating ...

Enclaves of larger plants remained towards the poles, in coastal and in slightly mountainous regions where the temperature ...

Apart from typical forest fires that consume surface vegetation, many high-latitude fires burn through peat, the dense, carbon-rich layers of partially decayed organic material.