Environment
How Do Ecosystems Stay in Balance?
Ecosystems change continuously as organisms use energy, cycle nutrients, compete, cooperate, migrate, and respond to disturbance.
Learn about climate, weather, water, ecosystems, and sustainability.
Ecosystems change continuously as organisms use energy, cycle nutrients, compete, cooperate, migrate, and respond to disturbance.
Solar energy and gravity move water among oceans, air, land, ice, organisms, and groundwater through evaporation, condensation, precipitation, infiltration, runoff, and transpiration.
Today's rapid warming is primarily caused by human greenhouse-gas emissions from fossil fuels, land-use change, industry, and agriculture.
Tropical cyclones draw energy from warm ocean water, moist air, condensation, rotation, and organized thunderstorms under low wind shear.