Forest ecosystems form the backbone of terrestrial biodiversity and global biogeochemical cycles. They integrate complex structures and processes ranging from tree physiology and species interactions ...

Forests aren’t keeping up with today’s climate chaos. While temperatures soar within decades, tree populations take 100 to 200 years to shift in response. A sweeping new analysis of ancient pollen and ...

Introduction / Aline Chiabai -- Part I. Central American tropical forests, ecosystem services and human wellbeing -- An overview of forest biomes and ecoregions of Central America / Lenin Corrales, ...

Forests increasingly face pressures and risks such as pests, pollution and forest fires, all of which are aggravated by climate change. The EU aims to ensure that these precious ecosystems are ...

Image Native forests—whether primary or secondary—play an essential role in carbon capture and storage. From the story ...

As tropical forests experience chronic drying and more extreme droughts due to climate change, some plants are adapting by growing longer root systems to reach water deep within soils, according to a ...

The total area of global karst regions is approximately 22 million square kilometers, accounting for roughly 15% of the Earth's land surface. These regions ...

As climate change intensifies and the global push toward net-zero emissions gathers pace, Vietnam is gradually shaping its ...

The launch of the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) at the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil underscores how the Amazon Forest can be part of the climate solution. There’s another Amazon, ...

Foresters in Germany are leveraging biodiversity to combat climate-related threats to forests. The Arnsberg forest's ...

Home to some of the largest stores of carbon on Earth, tropical forests help prevent the severe effects of climate change. However, as rainfall decreases, carbon storage—in addition to ecosystem ...