Satellite imagery shows that the loss of tropical forests over the past year has doubled compared to 2023, with half of it ...

Tropical forests provide a buffer against climate change, but disappeared faster than ever recorded last year.

Increased tropical forest growth could release carbon from the soil Date: August 15, 2011 Source: Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Summary: A new study shows that as climate change enhances tree ...

Continually logging and re-growing tropical forests to supply timber is reducing the levels of vital nutrients in the soil, which may limit future forest growth and recovery, a new study suggests.

Tropical forests store a third of the world's carbon in their wood and soils. However, their future as a carbon sink has been uncertain. Scientists have long wondered whether nutrient-poor ...

A record 67,000 square kilometres of primary rainforest was lost from the tropics in 2024, with global warming and El Niño ...

An experiment that heated soil underneath a tropical rainforest to mimic temperatures expected in the coming decades found that hotter soils released 55 percent more planet-warming carbon dioxide ...

Tropical forests are among the most important ecosystems for combating global warming. Yet many of them grow on infertile soils. Scientists believed that trees could be reutilizing the nutrients ...

including losses from sources such as soil and dead trees. The researchers write that the plots they examined share characteristics with other tropical forests, but acknowledge that the heavily logged ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Biodiversity is a term biologists and ecologists use to describe ...