Researchers working with the Open Earth Monitor Cyberinfrastructure project mapped how the country’s natural vegetation zones (biomes) will shift by 2080. The results, drawn from high-resolution ...

Reno and Sparks could be classified as desert by the second half of the century if greenhouse gas emissions remain high, according to a new study. Researchers from Wageningen University & Research and ...

The biome concept organizes large-scale ecological variation. Terrestrial biomes are distinguished primarily by their predominant vegetation, and are mainly determined by temperature and rainfall. Aa ...

Whether in a desert, the savanna, or a tropical rainforest, plants have an important role in the ecological processes of Earth’s biomes. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we’ll explore these ...

The mass extinction that ended the Permian geological epoch, 252 million years ago, wiped out most animals living on Earth. Huge volcanoes erupted, releasing 100,000 billion metric tons of carbon ...