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 Amazon, large trees are currently prioritized for harvest.

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

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 ...

When we look at the towering trees of old-growth forest patches in the Amazon, we might think these ancient beings have reached their maximum size and width. It turns out they have not, a new study ...

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.

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 ...

New research shows that fires in northern forests are releasing far more carbon than global climate models have been tracking.