As we celebrate Earth Day 2014, a new article in a series on the National Science Foundation’s Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network highlights LTER research that seeks to understand what our world will look like in the foreseeable future. Earth Day in the Future: What Will It Be Like? is part thirteen in the Discovery Series, and includes a photo slideshow of important LTER research that’s investigating future scenarios of global change.

You can also follow the links in the article to visit parts one through twelve at the NSF Discoveries website.