Yana Gevorgyan: If I were explaining it to a layperson or a high school student, I would say it’s a dynamic map of all of the world’s ecosystems. It presents them to us in a harmonized way so ...

A map released Tuesday offers the first comprehensive map of the world’s underground water sources, as ecosystems around the world are at risk from declining levels of underground water.

After a disastrous year for coral reefs in which abnormally high ocean temperatures served a fatal blow to many of the vital underwater ecosystems ... anywhere in the world," NOAA Ocean ...

Wetlands are disappearing three times faster than forests and are Earth’s most threatened ecosystem. In just 50 years — since 1970 — 35% of the world’s wetlands have been lost. Human ...

The mix of temperate and Arctic trees and animals suggested a previously unknown type of ecosystem that has no modern equivalent — one that could act as a genetic road map for how different ...

Polidoro: But as much as half the world’s seagrass is yet to be found. We’re protecting these critical ecosystems with surveys that are as accurate as an early Renaissance map of the New World.

This ecosystem by many names—bogs ... and snakes live in wetlands around the world. In North America, migratory birds use these habitats as pit-stops on their cross-country journeys.

The study looks not just at guardrails for the planetary ecosystem but for the first time ... upon in the 2015 Paris climate agreement. The world has so far warmed about 1.1 degrees Celsius ...