The air moving above the forest carries valuable information about how trees absorb carbon, and what may happen in the future ...

"If that all went into the atmosphere, that would accelerate climate change," Doughty said. He was the one up in the trees, taping each sensor delicately to the tropical canopy. Though the ...

The tropical rainforest biome in Costa Rica is under threat from climate change. The effects of this change are already being felt by the plants, animals, and people that depend on the forest.

A tropical rainforest biome climate is an environment found near the Earth's equator, in locations such as South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia, characterized by high temperatures and high ...

Trees in cities are more than just decorative elements. They play a critical role in mitigating heat gain from hard surfaces ...

More than one-third of the world’s tree species, from tropical magnolias to mountainous ... partly explain why trees are failing to adapt to climate change. A majority of tree species depend ...

Therefore, scientists don’t have enough data to understand giant tropical tree mortality, or how it’s shifting due to climate change. “We have no confidence about what’s going on for these ...

The savanna climate varies according to the season ... grasslands because they support scattered tree growth (hence the word "tropical"), creating a mix of open grassland and tree cover.

By Manuela Andreoni What if financial markets treated trees like shareholders? Enter the Tropical Forests Forever ... first presented at the global climate summit in Dubai, last November, is ...

Lightning strikes may kill untold numbers of trees every year, but one tropical species has evolved to benefit from the sudden jolts of electricity. The tonka bean tree, aka Dipteryx oleifera ...