Subdividing large natural areas into smaller spatial units can inhibit wildlife movement across the landscape (Peck 1998; Cieslewicz, 2002). Leapfrog development patterns further fragment natural ...

In this way, regional changes in the patterns of sea surface temperature in the eastern ... Moreover, the amplitude of natural variability, that is, variability unrelated to greenhouse-gas forcing ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Atmospheric rivers – those long, narrow bands of water vapor in the sky that bring heavy rain and storms to the U.S. West Coast and many other regions – are shifting toward higher ...