Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These local landholders hold the key to a valuable solution as the world tries to slow climate change – restoring deforested ...

Dr. Zaiton Samdin is an Associate Professor in the School of Business and Economics, Universiti Putra Malaysia, and currently a Deputy Director, Institute of Tropical Forestry and Forest Products ...

Multi-institutional effort led by Berkeley Lab, called NGEE-Tropics, will couple field research with the development of a new ecosystem model Tropical forests play major roles in regulating Earth's ...

An exceptional discovery in northern China has revealed a 300-million-year-old tropical forest preserved under volcanic ash.

The air moving above the forest carries valuable information about how trees absorb carbon, and what may happen in the future as global temperatures rise Vanessa Crooks The forest breathes! There is a ...

Tropical forests play a pivotal role in global carbon cycling and biodiversity conservation, yet they are increasingly exposed to the impacts of extreme weather events. Hurricanes and typhoons, as ...

Natural forest regeneration is hailed as a cost-effective way to restore biodiversity and sequester carbon. However, the fragmentation of tropical forests has restricted the movement of large birds ...

Researchers have found that tropical forest ecosystems are more reliant on aquatic insects than temperate forest ecosystems, making them more vulnerable to disruptions to the links between land and ...

Beneath the world's tropical wetlands lies a carbon archive built over thousands of years — peat deposits so vast they store ...

Tropical forests are highly productive ecosystems accounting for nearly half of the global forest carbon sink. If tropical forests can no longer remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, the effects ...

The destruction of tropical rainforests — seen in shocking images of huge wildfires, vast clearcuts, and dying drought-stressed trees — is unfolding annually before the world’s eyes. But some serious ...