Plants in tropical regions are extending their roots deeper into the soil in an effort to find the water they need to survive ...

In short: more carbon in the air does not guarantee more carbon in the wood. Between those two lies a living network of ...

Forests have shifted from absorbing carbon to becoming a net carbon source after 2010 due to extensive losses of tropical ...

Most of us know pine forests are different than jungles. There's a reason the world's forests are so distinct, yet there are ...

Known as the “hypertropics,” this climate is defined by hot drought conditions—and hasn’t been seen on Earth for tens of millions of years.

Researchers at Northern Arizona University and the Smithsonian found an unconventional method to understand how rainforests will survive with climate change—making tea with living leaves at the top of ...

How George Wallace and Bull Connor Set the Stage for Alabama’s Sky-High Electric Rates Scenes From an Unfolding Climate Drama A New Jersey Buyout Program for Flood-Prone Homes Is a National Model From ...

Forests play a critical role in regulating the global climate, maintaining biodiversity, and supporting the resilience of ecosystems and communities. However, ongoing degradation and deforestation ...

The Brazilian academic believes that the tipping point he has warned of for decades is ‘much closer’ — but he retains his optimism about the next generation ...

Brazil is home to some of the planet’s largest areas of tropical forest, but they are under intense pressure. The Atlantic Forest, on the country’s eastern coast, once covered 350 million acres, but ...

Jason Gray is the Project Director of the Governors' Climate and Forests Task Force, a project of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at UCLA School of Law. The GCF Task Force ...

The multibillion-dollar fund would essentially pay countries to keep forests standing, hoping for success where earlier forest-protection ideas have struggled. By Somini Sengupta and Claire Brown To ...