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Scientists have been dramatically underestimating how much carbon trees actually absorb from the atmosphere, and the discoveries emerging from recent research are reshaping our understanding of ...

There is nothing like a tree. It is one of nature’s most generous multi-taskers, providing food, fiber, fuel, shade and habitat for humans and wildlife alike. Forests are a vital part of the Earth’s ...

A new study warns that climate risks like wildfires and drought could weaken forest carbon credit systems in the future.

The increasingly urgent climate crisis has led to a boom in commercial tree plantations in an attempt to offset excess carbon emissions. However, authors argue that these carbon-offset plantations ...

Francesca has an MSci in Biochemistry from the University of Birmingham. When a tree is cut down (or dies) that carbon is released back into the atmosphere. Wood products like timber, however, can ...

Biodiversity experiments show that a high diversity of plants increases the accumulation of soil carbon and nitrogen, but whether such conclusions hold in natural ecosystems is debated. An analysis of ...

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

While startups race to build machines that can suck CO2 from the air, the world’s three trillion trees are already doing the same thing at a massive scale. A new platform is designed to track exactly ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. It was perhaps the most spectacular failed tree planting project ever. Certainly the ...