Drawing on above-ground biomass data ... The main contributors to the global carbon sink are boreal and temperate forests, while tropical forests have become small carbon sources because of ...

A new study finds that temperate forests, by absorbing sunlight ... sound like a good idea to combat global warming, since trees draw carbon dioxide from the air and release cool water from ...

Plants thrive off the nutrient remnants of their ancestors and peers. Trees in a temperate forest draw nitrogen from the soil that is largely derived from the breakdown of the leaves that carpet ...

“However, we should be cautious to draw global conclusions based solely ... forests being lost almost three times faster than temperate forests and more than eight times faster than boreal ...

"Some temperate forests already appear to be showing chronic ... high air temperatures overheat leaves and also increase the stress on trees by drawing the moisture from their tissues at faster ...

The researchers found that tropical species are shifting their ranges up mountain slopes at a rate that’s 2.1 to 2.4 times faster than their temperate counterparts, and tropical forests, in particular ...

Keeping forests standing would lessen both the number and size of spring floods in temperate regions, according to a new study in Water Resources Research, by slowing seasonal snow melts.