Four key pillars of the global climate are melting in the heat trapped by rising fossil fuel emissions, a new study has found. The relatively stable climate that nurtured human civilization depends…

Nature Climate Change - The authors assess the risk of overshoot beyond 1.5 °C warming, using three scenarios with minimal overshoot, brief overshoot and sustained overshoot. They show a...

Research indicates that fire alters tropical forests' ability to tolerate climate stress and store carbon—a crucial role in global climate mitigation.

Communications Earth & Environment - Correlations of positive and negative alpha-pinene adjust according to drought stress on plants, according to an analysis of atmospheric chemistry data from...

"We're not seeing signs of them dying off," one of the study's lead authors told NBC News. "They are increasing in size and number as well."

Nature - Thirty years of forest demographic data, combined with recent ecophysiological measurements, reveal that intense Amazon droughts sharply increase tree mortality once soil moisture falls...

Communications Earth & Environment - The Brazilian Legal Amazon region delivers rainfall generation worth US$20 ± 7 billion annually, with each meter squared of forest...

Nature - The Amazon forest faces a near system-wide transition of 62−77% of the area under a combination of 1.5–1.9 °C global warming and 22−28% deforestation.