New research shows shrubs and other plants infiltrating the countryside and advancing northward in Quebec.
Published Dec 10, 2011Temperatures are warming faster in the Arctic than anywhere else in the world. Here’s why.
Published May 26, 2013Beginning in 1932, Dutch engineers completed a dike across the Zuiderzee to create a freshwater lake. Engineers later used pumps to drain water from the area, creating expanses of usable land known as polders. These images show changes in the land cover in one such polder between 1980 and 2007.
Published Aug 3, 2008Tree and plant cover has deteriorated considerably in some areas, while advancing in other areas that previously burned or used to be frozen.
Published Jul 27, 2020Erosion is one of the major changes to the state’s landscape in recent decades.
Published Feb 11, 2019Scientists say the world would be even warmer if not for a surge in plant growth.
Published Feb 18, 2020For more than two decades, satellites have been observing seasonal patterns of Earth's vegetation. In eastern North America, the spring “green up” is one of the most dramatic changes satellites observe.
Published Sep 15, 2007Climate change is already affecting the American people in far-reaching ways, says a new climate report.
Published May 8, 2014Scientists used a ground-based network and models to detect global and regional fluctuations in CFC-11 emissions to the atmosphere.
Published Feb 19, 2021