A new study shows that as climate change enhances tree growth in tropical forests, the resulting increase in litterfall could stimulate soil micro-organisms leading to a release of stored soil carbon.

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 ...

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

New research reveals that tropical forests have clever tricks up their leaves to thrive in nutrient-poor soils, proving that nature always finds a way. As reported on Phys.org, tropical forests ...

Gold mining in the Amazon is devastating soil and water; combined with heat, water loss, and topsoil depletion, it's stalling ...

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

Nearly 17 million acres of tropical forest were destroyed last year, according to the University of Maryland's 2024 tree ...

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 ...

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 ...