Cover crops like millet, sorghum, and black-eyed peas have been successful at the botanic gardens. They improve water ...

The poles are warming faster than anywhere else on Earth, and fires in the northern boreal forest are increasing in both ...

It is commonly assumed that as forest ecosystems age, they accumulate and store, or "sequester," more carbon. A new study based at the University of Michigan Biological Station untangled carbon ...

Fast-growing trees don't always store more carbon. In tough environments, slow but resilient species store more.

Forests provide many ecosystem services, including microclimate regulation, biodiversity preservation, air and water ...

A study in Forest Ecosystems reveals that Australia's cool temperate rainforests are more disturbance-resilient than ...

After joining the Biden administration's push for younger-growth harvests, an Alaska timber association is asking the Forest ...

A new study reveals that Earth's biomes changed dramatically in the wake of mass volcanic eruptions 252 million years ago.

Temperate rainforest habitat used to cover swathes of Britain ... They now are found only in fragments that face threats ...

Climate experiment in a forest in Staffordshire, UK, is testing how trees respond to higher levels of carbon dioxide in the air ...

A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém. It aims to ease traffic to ...

once emissions from forest fires, deforestation and other disturbances are accounted for. Temperate forests, such as those in the UK, are responsible for almost half of that uptake.⁠ ⁠ ...