Latitude is one of the most important factors in determining global climate patterns. In areas around the equator, sunlight has a smaller area of atmosphere to pass through, and the sun’s rays ...

The four billion tons of marine organisms that global fisheries extracted from the ocean between 1960 and 2018 resulted in ...

Glaciers carry unique organic carbon fingerprints that reflect geography and pollution, influencing ecosystems downstream.

The Department of Geography houses a dendrochronology laboratory and palynology laboratory for paleoclimate reconstruction, the Nevada State Climate Office and geospatial laboratories that study ...

each with distinctive interacting characteristics and components. They range from small ecosystems such as a freshwater pond, to global ecosystems such as deserts.

Freshwater ecosystems require adequate oxygen levels ... Zhang Yunlin from the Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with researchers ...

This article explores how nitrogen becomes available to organisms and what changes in nitrogen levels as a result of human activity means to local and global ecosystems. Nitrogen is one of the ...