Oak trees keep absorbing carbon dioxide long after their annual growth has ended, revealing that photosynthesis and wood ...

Researchers in the United States, Europe, and Argentina have discovered that some trees stop growing in the heat of summer—a ...

Photosynthesis does not always result in wood growth, a key factor in carbon dioxide sequestration ...

A Kookmin University research team has developed a technology that can measure the amount of carbon stored in trees in a ...

A two-decade-long experiment in the Sierra Nevada found that regular prescribed burns promote carbon sequestration in live trees and plants, maintaining forests' long-term ability to store carbon ...

The giant trees of tropical forests are important allies in the fight against climate change because of their ability to ...

By Claudia Geib The rainforests of the Congo Basin are the planet’s largest forested carbon sink: as these 3.3 million square ...

After more than a century of fire suppression in California’s forests, mounting evidence shows that frequent fire — through practices like prescribed fire or Indigenous cultural burning — can improve ...

Coffee farms with mature shade trees store far more carbon than planting new trees can capture, a new study reveals. Ellie Tahmaseb Tree canopy on shade-grown coffee farms helps mitigate impacts of ...

In a polytunnel on the Scottish island of Bute, thousands of spindly Scots pine seedlings are growing. On the surface, nothing could appear more commonplace than Scots pine growing in Scotland. But ...