Agriculture and land use together are responsible for 25% of all anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Land cover change, such as deforestation, adds another 12-17%. Unlike GHG mitigation strategies in many other […]
Alpine ecosystems are islands of cold. They contain pockets of endemic biodiversity surrounded by a sea of hotter land. Mountains are thought to be particularly vulnerable to climate change because increased temperatures compromise species […]
The below picture for this blog post is a powerful image of how the Atlantic ocean will cover New York City’s Wall Street if we allow the world to rise four degrees Celsius. This article explores […]
Three years before Syria’s uprising in 2011, the country experienced the worst drought in recorded history. This unprecedented dry weather caused dramatic crop failure and livestock mortality in regions heavily dependent on […]
John Muir said that, “when we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe”. That is exactly what ecologists from the University of Montana […]
Put yourself in the most optimistic–perhaps bordering on naïve–state of mind that you can. Now imagine that Mobile, Alabama has just become the nation’s premier scuba diving destination. Rising ocean temperatures have […]
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