Scientists have been dramatically underestimating how much carbon trees actually absorb from the atmosphere, and the discoveries emerging from recent research are reshaping our understanding of ...

Climate change is causing trees to sprout earlier in spring. Nevertheless, some tree species are growing less. A study by the ...

After more than a century of fire suppression in California’s forests, mounting evidence shows that frequent fire — through practices like prescribed fire or Indigenous cultural burning — can improve ...

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 ...

During the dry years, Germany's forests largely lost their function as carbon sinks. Now it has become apparent that the forest soil compensated for almost all of the negative effects during this ...

Declining snow accumulation in the mountains of the Northeastern U.S. will likely reduce the ability of forests to act as a carbon sink, a study has found. The shrinking snowpack and destructive ...

The Amazon rainforest, often called the lungs of the Earth, is facing one of its most dangerous moments in modern history as massive fires swept across large areas in 2024 and released more carbon ...

New study on a ‘portfolio approach’ to carbon removal enables firms to mix expensive tech-based solutions that inject carbon deep underground with lower-cost and currently more available nature-based ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Founder of the Climate Tech Venture Review and Banyan Tree Research This is the third article in a series delving into the ...