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

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

Tropical forests are disappearing at an alarming clip across the globe. As lush land is cleared for agriculture, climate-warming carbon gets released and biodiversity declines. But when farmland is ...

New research shows tropical forests can recover twice as fast after deforestation when their soils contain enough nitrogen.

Seven percent of a Costa Rican coffee farm's annual income, US$62,000, comes directly from the pollination "services" of adjacent tropical forest, according to a new study published by a WWF scientist ...

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

Tropical forests still absorb vast amounts of carbon, but new evidence suggests that small deforestation clearings cause ...

The air moving above the forest carries valuable information about how trees absorb carbon, and what may happen in the future as global temperatures rise Vanessa Crooks The forest breathes! There is a ...

Published in Nature (Small persistent humid forest clearings drive tropical forest biomass losses | Nature ), the study ...

Natural forest regrowth in the world’s tropical rainforests is expanding. According to the Forest Declaration Assessment 2025, more than 11 million hectares (27 million acres) of tropical moist ...