Chennai: Rising temperatures, erratic rainfall patterns and elevation-linked microclimates are steadily reshaping forest ...

Did you know that forests cover almost one-third of all land on Earth? These large green areas are the lungs of our planet, ...

A century ago, the forests of the Eastern U.S. looked very different. They were packed with towering chestnut trees. But since then, those trees have largely disappeared, and the forests have evolved ...

Global warming is accompanied by increasing water stress across much of our planet. We studied soil biological processes and changes in soil organic carbon (SOC) storage in 30 Hungarian oak forest ...

Even under severe fire weather conditions, carbon losses in deciduous stands were consistently lower than those in conifer forests. "This work shows that not all boreal forests burn the same way," ...

As climate change drives more frequent and severe wildfires across boreal forests in Alaska and northwestern Canada, scientists are asking a critical question: Will these ecosystems continue to store ...