A new study shows that nitrogen-fixing trees could help forests remove more heat-trapping COS from the atmosphere than previously thought. Black locust trees have a symbiotic relationship with ...

Nitrogen shortage limits young tropical forest growth, slowing carbon capture that could help fight climate change.

Young tropical forests play a crucial role in slowing climate change. Growing trees absorb carbon dioxide from the air, using ...

(Millbrook, NY) Tropical forests are allies in the fight against climate change. Growing trees absorb carbon emissions and store them as woody biomass. As a result, reforestation of land once cleared ...

A new study, published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reveals that nitrogen-fixing trees play an underrecognized role in recovering tropical forests by enriching ...

Young tropical forests can regrow twice as fast with enough nitrogen, dramatically increasing carbon capture, according to a ...

The ability of tropical forests to grow and store carbon is limited, in part, by herbivory. Insects and other animals prefer to feed on nitrogen-fixing trees, reducing the success of fixers and the ...

Forty nitrogen fixing tree and shrub species, native or introduced to Pakistan are considered. Details of their distribution are given. The degree of nodulation influences their potential for soil ...

The study published today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers from Oregon State University and the U.S. Geological Survey determined red alder, through its ...

New research shows that the ability of tropical forests to lock up carbon depends critically upon a group of trees that possess a unique talent -- the ability to fix nitrogen from the atmosphere.

The uneven distribution of biological nitrogen fixation in terrestrial ecosystems has yet to be explained. Latitudinal gradients in temperature and phosphorus may hold the answer. Like the ancient ...