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.

A study of Israeli Mediterranean forests finds that mixed tree stands store about 6.1 megagrams more soil carbon per hectare ...

An international study led by the University of Freiburg, published in Global Change Biology, has found that forests with many tree species can store significantly more carbon than those with only one ...

A 30-year forestry experiment in Australia found that heavily thinned mountain ash forests grew unusually large trees while ...

We’ve known for some time that forests are crucial to fighting climate change, but scientists are still learning just how much. A new study published in Science on March 19 finds that old, undisturbed ...

A new study has challenged the long-standing assumption that global warming will inevitably turn humid subtropical forests into carbon sources, revealing these ecosystems may instead continue ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In highly deforested landscapes and degraded forests, large-seeded big trees are losing out to opportunistic, fast-growing species, a recent study ...

Kauri are among Aotearoa New Zealand’s tallest and longest-lived trees – and their place in our cultural landscape looms equally large. Centuries-old kauri such as Tāne Mahuta and Te Matua Ngahere are ...