Biologists who set out to better understand the effects of climate change on plant species in tropical mountain regions found that even small variations in temperature and moisture can have massive ...

If global warming continues at its current pace, a new study warns, tropical species could take over parts of Mediterranean marine ecosystems by the end of the century. The research analyzed a ...

A new model reassesses the proportion of terrestrial and marine species threatened with extinction by climate change. While the forecasts of traditional models estimate that the diversity of ...

A forty-year study shows climate change is reshaping Amazon and Andean forests, with uneven tree gains and losses across ...

The Amazon rainforest is slowly transitioning to a new, hotter climate with more frequent and intense droughts—conditions that haven't been seen on Earth for tens of millions of years. Subscribe to ...

Karolina Zarzyczny receives funding from the Natural Environmental Research Council (grant NE/S007210/1). Climate change is causing tropical species in the ocean to move from the equator towards the ...

Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira is at the Conservation Ecology Center, Smithsonian’s National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute, Front Royal, Virginia 22630, USA, and at the Forest Global Earth ...

The mortality rate of trees in forests from Tasmania to the Top End is increasing as the world warms, according to a new study. Scientists suspect this rising death rate is part of a global trend but ...

Tropical forests have long been treated as slow, patient allies in the fight against climate change, quietly locking away ...