Discover how botanic gardens worldwide are striving to combat plant extinction through innovation, collaboration, and ...

Vegetation has been a key part of the Earth's surface for only about 450 million years. With the progression of the terrestrial landscape from bare surfaces to widespread coverage by plants ...

A new climate modeling study presents a new scenario of how climate and life on our planet would change in response to a potential future strike of a medium-sized (~500 m) asteroid.

A recent study revealed that 2020 was the greenest year recorded by modern satellite observations from 2001 to 2020. This surge in greenery was particularly evident in northern and temperate regions, ...

Earth systems models are an important tool for studying complex processes occurring around the planet, such as those in and between the atmosphere and biosphere, and they help researchers and ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Earth's vegetation stores approximately 786 km 3 of water, a small fraction of global freshwater. Water transits through plants rapidly, taking 5 to 18 days ...