Spruce trees that experienced long-term droughts were more resistant to future ones, while pines acclimatized to wet periods were more vulnerable.

The Top End of Australia's Northern Territory contains an extensive, awe-inspiring expanse of tropical savanna landscapes. It ...

At the projected rate of climate change and escalating land-use activities, the forests may even become a source of carbon to the atmosphere. If pushed too far, vast stretches of tropical ...

Setting up the world’s biggest giant tropical forest reserve in the Congo Basin is a step towards conserving the area and ...

Climate models predict a range of changes in weather patterns in tropical forest regions (Feng et al., 2013). Across Amazonia, a drier and warmer climate is expected for the coming century, which is ...

The site is located 1 mile south of Oslo Road on U.S. 1. It contains freshwater wetlands, pine flatwoods, tropical oak-palm ...

Sea of Grass,” written by Dave Hage and former Star Tribune environmental reporter Josephine Marcotty, is due in bookstores ...

Globally, forests are thought to absorb from the atmosphere more than a quarter of the carbon emissions from human activities every year. Intact tropical forests are especially effective at ...

The record comes as the EU has decided to delay anti-deforestation rules and pull back other environmental protections in a bid to boost economic competitiveness. BRUSSELS — Tropical forest loss ...

The relationship between the southern Brazilian tropical Atlantic lowland rain forest and modern pollen rain was studied by pollen traps. The study was carried out on a one hectare plot undisturbed ...

Paris: Eighteen football pitches every minute of every hour of every day: that is the record extent of tropical rainforest destroyed last year due in large measure to fires fuelled by climate ...