Antarctica, often considered the last pristine wilderness, is undergoing a striking transformation. Once dominated by vast ...

energy budgets and vegetation cover that can create a patchwork of the five climate groups. This project investigated nine elevations from 0 m to more than 4,000 m at 500 m intervals. The research ...

Indigenous burning practices in Australia once halved shrub cover, reducing available fuels and limiting wildfire intensity for thousands of years, but the removal of these practices following ...

Satellite images show the area covered by vegetation has grown dramatically and is now 10 times larger than it was four decades ago and the rate of change is speeding up.

These show the sort of perturbation expected from a decline in the use of fire to manage land, and a big grow-back of natural vegetation. Ed Hawkins, professor of climate science at Reading ...

Recent research shows a 30% increase in plant cover growth from 2016-2021 ... key research site for studying the effects of climate change on vegetation and migratory seabirds, offering insights ...

Parts of Antarctica are turning green more quickly than previously thought, leaving scientists "shocked" at the impact of climate ... vegetation itself, but "it is the rate at which that ...