Climate change represents a significant threat to global biodiversity and ecosystem integrity.
The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which has been ratified by …

Palaeoclimatology provides our only means of assessing climatic variations before the
beginning of instrumental records. The various proxy variables used, however, have a …

Many biological, hydrological, and geological processes are interactively linked in
ecosystems. These ecological phenomena normally vary within bounded ranges, but rapid …

This book stimulates thinking on the topic of detrimental environmental change and how
research psychologists can help to address the problem. In addition to reporting …

Seventy new heat flow values have been determined for the Indian shield. The new sites
include 28 from the Archaean Dharwar craton, one from the Proterozoic Cuddapah basin of …

Analyses of underground temperature measurements from 358 boreholes in eastern North
America, central Europe, southern Africa, and Australia indicate that, in the 20th century, the …

The rates of many processes that control rock breakdown into transportable particles are
dependent upon rock temperature. In particular, frost-cracking depends largely upon the …

Global surface air temperature has increased about 0.5° C from the minimum of mid‐1992, a
year after the Mt. Pinatubo eruption. Both a land‐based surface air temperature record and a …

Thermokarst terrain develops when some forms of permafrost–or so‐called frozen ground–
thaw and the soil subsides under its own mass. The processes that create thermokarst …

Temperatures across the northern regions of North America have been increasing for 150
years, and forests have responded to this increase. In the Noatak National Preserve in …