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Climate change is intensifying flood hazards in coastal areas. In the Ranchería River Delta (Colombian Caribbean), this trend, combined with demographic expansion and the occupation of flood-prone ar...

As globalization retreats and the world fragments into regional blocs and reshoring, global trade, governance and ecological pressures are being fundamentally reorganized. This moment offers a narrow ...

As a key initiative toward achieving China's “dual carbon” objectives, the programs for low-carbon cities and new energy demonstration cities have significantly contributed to enhancing urban carb...

Hurricane Lowell forecast: Watches issued as storm nears Hawaii Category 4 Hurricane Lowell is forecast to turn northward over the weekend and take a path uncomfortably close to Kauai on Labor Day. Hu...

Alpine lakes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau are important regions for studies of the regional carbon cycle and are highly sensitive to climate change. However, the variation patterns of lake surface gre...

Land that borders a protected nature site is being investigated over claims it is being used as an illegal site to dump medical waste. The Environment Agency (EA) said it was investigating the site o...

Promoting the synergy of pollution reduction and carbon mitigation is a crucial strategy for China's current climate and environmental governance. This requires active policy measures from both the pr...

Environmentalists say a “fatal flaw” in an analysis supporting the lease sale calls the agency's environmental analysis into question, while ranchers lament drastically reduced bonding minimums. ...

Supporters of a plan to reintroduce beavers to a county say they could help landscapes become more resilient to drought and climate change. Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust and Forestry England are sur...

In the context of global sustainable development and the “dual carbon” goals, environmental protection has become a crucial issue that cannot be ignored in the economic development of various coun...

Forest fragmentation has produced widespread edge zones, leading to declines in ecosystem functioning. Although human activities are the primary drivers of such ecological disturbance, how they modula...

As AI use shifts from simple, one-off queries to longer and more complex tasks, the added computing required results in a dramatically larger environmental footprint. The energy needed to build a web ...

Fishing has long been a concern to ocean ecosystems, but it can also impact the carbon cycle by disturbing the biological carbon pump (BCP). This Comment discusses whether a ‘BCP fisheries code of p...

At issue is a Clean Water Act provision that has long given states a role in decision-making on infrastructure that would affect streams and wetlands. Share This Article When the Trump administrat...

Less than a month after Hurricane Lala dumped torrential rains and damaging winds on Hawaii, another storm could potentially impact the islands. According to a Sept. 4 advisory from the National Hurr...

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Nature-based solutions in savannas and grasslands that seek to maximize tree cover and carbon uptake can erode biodiversity, create fragile carbon stocks and disrupt the livelihoods of people who depe...

Shaped over millennia by fire and shifting biogeographical barriers, the subtropical peatlands of Australia's eastern coast are among the most carbon-dense terrestrial ecosystems in the world. These a...

Forests store atmospheric CO₂ in their biomass and could play a major role as a natural climate solution. Advances in observations and remote sensing now better quantify the role of forests in the g...

In April 2024, Tish Taylor and her father, Robert, stood behind President Joe Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency chief, Michael Regan, as he signed a regulation designed to dramatically reduce ...