A new global review of observed climate change impacts on plant communities reveals major gaps in where and how we monitor some of the world's most climate-vulnerable ecosystems.
Isaac Larsen, an associate professor in the College of Natural Sciences' Department of Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences, is a lead author of "Status of the World's Soil Resources 2026," a new report produced by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) that draws on recent scientific…
A new study finds that coastal forest loss in North Carolina's Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula began accelerating after 2010 and may still be speeding up. The study also found that North Carolina lost more than 20% of its coastal forest between 1985 and 2021.
Forest soils store an estimated 40% of the world's terrestrial carbon, but estimates suggest that around 15–30% of that soil carbon is lost when a forest is harvested. Tracking such losses can be tricky: wildfires, insects, disease and past forest management can all affect forest soil carbon stores, and tree type…
Исследователи из Нидерландов впервые получили прямые данные о столкновениях птиц с морской ветряной турбиной с помощью системы из тепловизионных камер и искусственного интеллекта. Девять месяцев наблюдений на одной турбине показали, что технологию можно использовать для регистрации таких событий даже ночью, в тумане и…
Минприроды России подготовило законопроект о создании национальной системы охраны особо ценных водно-болотных угодий. Документ предлагает закрепить в законодательстве новый статус для территорий, имеющих особое значение для сохранения водоплавающих и околоводных птиц.
В 2025 году теплосодержание верхних 2000 м Мирового океана увеличилось примерно на 23 ± 8 зеттаджоуля по сравнению с 2024 годом. Это новый рекорд за весь период наблюдений. По оценке Copernicus, океан продолжает поглощать около 90% избыточного тепла, накапливающегося в климатической системе из-за роста концентрации…
When a prairie river carries more water in one year than another, the obvious place to look for an explanation is the sky. A year with more snow and rain should have more water in rivers. That was also how I initially thought about year-to-year changes in river flow. But while studying the Prairie Pothole Region, I…
Water does not flow only through rivers on the ground. Vast quantities of water also move through the atmosphere, carried by winds from oceans and land before eventually falling as precipitation hundreds or even thousands of kilometers away. These persistent pathways of atmospheric moisture are often referred to as…
Across the Caribbean, people have installed roughly twice as many solar panels as official statistics would suggest. That is the finding of a new report, which calls on countries to make it easier for new solar installations to connect to the grid. Read more on E360 →