Electric utilities have been under intense scrutiny in recent years, plagued with questions about reliability because of expansive power outages and facing potential culpability for sparking damaging ...

For thousands of years, Indigenous people around the world have been living sustainably and in harmony with the environment. They have developed unique traditional land and vegetation management ...

Climate change is impacting the world around us. The long-term shift in weather patterns has resulted in hotter temperatures, rising sea levels and the loss of wildlife. It has affected agriculture ...

A new study explores large-scale relationships between vegetation and climatic characteristics using machine learning. The findings highlight the importance of climatic extremes in shaping the ...

Natural (and semi-natural) vegetation is defined as “vegetation where ecological processes primarily determine species and site characteristics”. Human activities may influence vegetation interaction, ...

Work on a comprehensive National Vegetation Classification began in the early 1990s, when the Ecology Department of The Nature Conservancy (now with NatureServe), the Ecological Society of America ...

A new study of vegetation growth in the Northern Hemisphere over the past 30 years has found that vegetation is becoming increasingly water-limited as global temperatures increase, which has the ...