Plants play a key role in regulating Earth's climate, but recent research suggests that rising temperatures could disrupt ...

Rising temperatures make plants lose more water, weakening their ability to absorb carbon dioxide and survive heat stress.

Climate scientists present a realistic supercomputer simulation that resolves the complex interactions between fire, vegetation, smoke and the atmosphere. The authors find that increasing greenhouse ...

Through initiatives like the Union for Ethical Biotrade (UEBT) and Rainforest Alliance certification, the Rooibos industry is ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, on the territory of the uninhabited Sahara Desert, gardens flourished, rivers flowed, ancient ...

A new study reveals how the CaMYB80 transcription factor enhances cold tolerance in pepper plants, a crucial step toward ...

Green vegetation absorbs carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere through photosynthesis and releases it back into the air ...

Projections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of today ...

Global air travel surged to record levels last year, and airlines are consuming far less sustainable jet fuel than expected.

In the race to combat global climate change, much attention has been given to natural 'carbon sinks:' those primarily terrestrial areas of the globe that absorb and sequester more carbon than they ...

Heat, drought and floods are growing security risks, Western defense officials say, feeding instability and violence that ...