The Environmental Protection Agency is drafting a plan to end federal limits on greenhouse gases generated from coal- and gas ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) confirmed on Saturday that it was drafting a plan to eliminate all limits on ...

The agency plans to argue that carbon emissions from power plants do not contribute “significantly” to climate change.

As global warming alters ecosystems, the need to predict the reorganization of Earth's biodiversity has become urgent. New ...

Alpine ecosystems are especially vulnerable to climate change, and many of them are already experiencing rapid warming that ...

UBC assistant professor Dr. Sean Michaletz, a newly minted Sloan Research Fellow in the department of botany, studies how plants respond to heat. His findings challenge a long-standing assumption ...

As the temperature and precipitation patterns change, so does the vegetation that they rely on for food. This can cause population declines as the ants are unable to find enough food to survive.

May 20 (UPI) --Climate change is rapidly altering the planet's vegetation. In fact, new research -- published Thursday in the journal Science-- suggests Earth's vegetation is changing faster today ...

Plants are the primary regulators of the water cycle, responsible for 60 percent of the flow of water from the land to the atmosphere. Research now shows how climate change is altering this vital ...

But plants are actually powerful change agents on the planet’s surface. They pump water from the ground through their tissues to the air, and they move carbon in the opposite direction ...