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How did Costa Rica beat back deforestation and buck the global trend?

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The Himalaya is facing a snow drought where winter snowfall arrives months late and summer heat comes early. Is the snowless ...

From AI conflation to thin evidence, a new report calls many climate claims greenwashing Some AI advocates claim that bots hold the secret to mitigating climate change. But research shows that the ...

Growing up in a village in northern Greenland, Jørgen Kristensen’s closest friends were his stepfather’s sled dogs. Most of ...

Deforestation in the Amazon is causing significant regional changes in climate compared to areas with forest cover above 80%. The loss of vegetation leads to an increase in surface temperature, a ...

The Amazon rainforest actively generates its own rainfall through a vital moisture recycling process. Trees release vast amounts of water vapor, creating 'flying rivers' that sustain ecosystems and ...

Key climate tipping points may be closer than expected, raising the risk of accelerating warming, sea-level rise, and ...

The Amazon rainforest is of crucial importance to the Earth's ecosystem, given its capacity to store substantial amounts of carbon in its vegetation. In 2023, the region experienced unusually high ...

Rainfall is often treated as a gift of geography — a function of latitude, oceans, and atmospheric circulation. A growing body of research suggests that in the tropics, it is also a product of ...

About 90 million years ago, the frozen realm of Antarctica used to be a lush, swampy, temperate forest, similar to those ...