In the long term, scientists expect the Pantanal to see more heatwaves, drier conditions, and more wildfires as the climate ...

As you can see from the climate graph, plants and animals in the desert have to cope with very little water. The climate is very hot. Summer day time temperatures can exceed 40°C. However ...

The world's largest tropical wetland is under threat, with scientists warning that devastating wildfires and a proposed commercial waterway could spell the "end of an entire biome". "Nowhere else ...

thereby affecting the climate. Most of the Pantanal's soda lakes are in an area known as Nhecolândia, a district of the municipality of Corumbá in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul.

Instead, it is being pushed to extinction by the climate crisis and agribusiness. This year alone, over two million hectares of the Pantanal have been reduced to ash. The ancestral lands of the ...

"These gases are a climate-change driver," says Tans, poking his graph definitively with his index finger. The three lines on the graph follow almost identical patterns: basically flat until the ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Over the course of Earth’s 4.5-billion-year history, the climate has changed a lot, this is true. However, the rapid warming we’re seeing now can't be explained by natural cycles of warming and ...

The Tesla billionaire is a key figure in the president-elect’s orbit. One question is whether his views on climate and clean energy will have any sway. By Brad Plumer Diplomats and leaders ...

At Oxfam, we know that climate change, poverty, and inequality are linked. The impact of shifting weather patterns, droughts, flooding, and storms hits marginalized communities with few resources ...

Leaders heading to the annual UN climate talks have a lot of other distractions to contend with Nations are under pressure to improve on the environmental commitments made in Paris in 2015.

For every 1C rise in average temperature, the atmosphere can hold about 7% more moisture, external. This can result in more droplets and heavier rainfall, sometimes in a shorter space of time and ...