Most of Europe's original natural forests have been transformed for agriculture and managed forests producing energy, paper, ...

Trees absorb carbon dioxide. The planet has too much carbon dioxide. Plant more trees, fix the problem. It is the kind of ...

Swedish old-growth forests store 83% more carbon than managed forests, according to a new study from Lund University. The difference is substantially larger than previous estimates and is mainly due ...

Are some forests starting to release more CO2 into the atmosphere than they are absorbing due to so many dying trees from ...

A group of trees that grow fast, live long lives and reproduce slowly account for the bulk of the biomass. Irene del Carmen Torres Dominguez measures the diameter of a tree on Barro Colorado Island in ...

Forest ecosystems occupy a substantial part of the Earth’s land surface. Forests are crucial to global carbon sinks, capturing and storing terrestrial carbon and accounting for approximately 25% of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers are exploring the potential of trees as a future source of sustainable biofuel for applications such as powering ...

For decades, ecologists assumed that ancient forests eventually reach a carbon equilibrium, absorbing roughly as much carbon dioxide as they release through decay. That assumption is now facing ...