When it comes to world building, some authors really put the effort in. In a new study, climate scientists attempted to model the environments of Westeros and Middle Earth – from A Song of Ice and ...

When English author J.R.R. Tolkien crafted his fantasy world Middle-earth, he argued storytellers are essentially “sub-creators” – they build fictional realms with internally consistent laws. For a ...

By John Cannon Planting trees is a vital strategy to combat both climate change and the biodiversity crisis. As forests grow, ...

Researchers found major fire models underestimate carbon released from deep peat soils in boreal forests. Field data from 324 Swedish wildfires showed belowground emissions were missed by up to 14 ...

Northern wildfires may be more dangerous for the climate than they appear. Researchers found that fires in boreal forests can burn deep into peat soils, releasing ancient carbon stored for hundreds or ...

The members of the team are: Sameh Abdulah, Marc G. Genton, David E. Keyes, Zubair Khalid, Hatem Ltaief, Yan Song, Greorgiy L. Stenchikov and Ying Sun (all of King Abdullah University of Science and ...

Louise Devenish receives funding from the Australian Research Council. This article includes contributions from the Dark Oceanography team: Louise Devenish (Monash University), Kate Milligan ...

This is double-edged and already in motion. India’s development context makes the trade-off sharper. It can be viewed as a structural convergence between compute growth and climate risk. India does ...