Climate change has significantly altered fire regimes worldwide, leading to an increase in the frequency, intensity, and ...

Forest adaptation is lagging: While climate change is altering temperature and ... temperatures in the region could rise by up to 4°C, with rainfall decreasing by as much as 20%.

wildfires are also associated with the loss of the forest cover, which would exacerbate climate change like increase in carbon emissions and the decline of the crucial and under-appreciated carbon ...

Forests absorb a significant amount of carbon from carbon dioxide (CO₂), storing it in wood and soil. They are a major driver ...

In the past, intact forests absorbed 7.8 billion tonnes of CO₂ annually – about a fifth of all human emissions – but their carbon storage is increasingly at risk from climate change and ...

This makes forests an increasingly important tool to curb the pace of climate change and also to slow the alarming loss of nature. Forest protection and conservation are becoming increasingly ...