The planet’s northern forests hold enormous amounts of carbon in spruce, pine, and thick, needle-rich soils. But a major new ...

For decades, ecologists assumed that ancient forests eventually reach a carbon equilibrium, absorbing roughly as much carbon ...

Old-growth forests store more carbon than managed forests, especially in soil. This changes how we think about climate and forest protection.

Most of Europe's original natural forests have been transformed for agriculture and managed forests producing energy, paper, ...

New research finds that climate-driven shifts in wildfire seasons in North America are different depending on the ecosystem.

The planet's undisturbed old-growth boreal forests may be far more important in the fight against climate change than previously realized, according ...

Boreal forests, often referred to as the "taiga," are vast ecosystems that stretch across the northern hemisphere, storing 25% and 40% of the global terrestrial carbon in their soils. However, the ...

Examples of FAF systems a, Commercial tropical agroforestry plantation system operated by a large private landowner on the lowland west central coast of Sri Lanka. b, Cultural keystone food forest ...

Longer, hotter, drier stretches of fire weather make fires more likely. Climate change is making severe fire weather more common around the world, raising the chances of worsened forest fire seasons, ...