Imagine walking through a dense forest on a scorching summer day, suddenly feeling the temperature drop by several degrees. The air becomes cooler, more humid, and somehow more breathable. This isn't ...

Reliant CCS, a Colorado-based renewable energy firm, has proposed using 74,000 acres of forest near Florala, outside of the ...

A two-decade-long experiment in the Sierra Nevada found that regular prescribed burns promote carbon sequestration in live ...

Scientists studying trees ranging from saplings to 130 years old in Canada’s northern forests have discovered that the period since a fire last swept through an area determines how much carbon the ...

Forests have been embraced as a natural climate solution, due to their ability to soak up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as they grow, locking it up in their trunks, branches, leaves, and roots.

Forest ecosystems play a vital role in the global carbon cycle. While the significance of tree mycorrhizal fungi in this process is well-documented ...

Restoring and protecting forests has the potential to store the equivalent of the annual carbon emissions of 50,000 coal fired-plants, according to a new study. Forests can play a central role in ...

We have divided our forest carbon stocks into three pools that allow us to track our carbon inventory and to follow and account for stored carbon when timber is harvested. The three pools are: 1) ...

A recent study highlights how forest thinning significantly influences the ability of forests to store or release carbon.

Human influence across centuries continues to define biodiversity and carbon storage in the world's largest rainforest, ...

A single hurricane barreling into New England forests can undo decades of carbon storage, a new study has found. As climate change heats oceans and fuels hurricanes, worsening storms with higher-speed ...

H. Damon Matthews receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada, and Microsoft Corporation Alexander Koch works for Trove ...