In a world in which biodiversity is increasingly under threat, and nature itself under siege, the role of human activities in driving ecosystem change has never more been apparent. 

A first-of-its-kind study led by The University of Texas at Austin has found that rock weathering and water storage appear to follow a similar pattern across undulating landscapes where hills rise and fall for miles.

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have made the first ever global assessment map of how future climate and land-use change impacts genetic diversity in mammals. 

Hydrogen will be needed in large quantities as an energy carrier and raw material in the energy system of the future.

The Andes Mountains of South America are the most species-rich biodiversity hotspot for plant and vertebrate species in the world.

New, detailed study of the Renland Ice Cap offers the possibility of modelling other smaller ice caps and glaciers with significantly greater accuracy than hitherto.

Coral reefs are one of the most biologically diverse ecosystems on earth. In the northern Red Sea and Gulf of Aqaba corals also have exceptionally high tolerance to increasing seawater temperatures, now occurring as a consequence of global warming.

Due to global warming, not only the temperatures in the atmosphere and in the ocean are rising, but also winds and ocean currents as well as the oxygen distribution in the ocean are changing.

Explosive eruptions from the Caribbean volcano have flung ash and sulfate particles to the stratosphere.

There is a clear trend towards earlier snowmelt at elevations between 1,000 and 2,500 meters.