New 3D scans of tropical rainforests give scientists better data on forest biomass, boosting carbon tracking and satellite ...

Living trees absorb carbon, aiding climate change mitigation. But what role do dead trees play in carbon storage? UVM researchers found that large, downed trees in streams tie up tremendous stores of ...

The Amazon's biggest trees store disproportionately more carbon than smaller trees do, new study finds. But in the Peruvian ...

A group of European scientists have recently proposed an idea to sink mature trees from the vast boreal forest in Canada, Alaska and Russia into the deep Arctic ocean, to store the carbon for ...

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 ...

The planet is becoming greener, but scientists warn that forests with fast-growing trees are more fragile and less resilient.

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 ...

Even-aged forest management is geared towards timber production with ecosystem health as a lesser consideration. This creates a dichotomy where forests are treated either as plantations or reserves.