While the loss of the rainforest would be terrible for many reasons locally, it would also have a big impact on the whole ...

A new analysis finds tropical forests in Australia are not taking in enough carbon dioxide to keep up with the emissions from ...

Australia's tropical rainforests are among the first in the world to start leaking more carbon dioxide than they absorb, ...

Deforestation in the Amazon has been identified as the main driver of declining rainfall, responsible for nearly three-quarters of the drop in dry-season precipitation since the mid-1980s. Between ...

Australia's tropical rainforests have become the first in the world to release more carbon than they absorb, in a trend ...

Australia’s rainforests are now releasing more carbon than they absorb, as heat, drought, and storms push them past a tipping ...

Australian tropical rainforest trees have become the first in the world to switch from being a carbon sink to an emissions ...

As the planet warms, it risks crossing catastrophic tipping points: thresholds where Earth systems, such as ice sheets and ...

The Hoh Rain Forest—pronounced “Hoe”—winds its way from Mount Olympus toward the Pacific Coast. The river itself was formed ...

Most people think of coal and country roads—but West Virginia may hold a secret rainforest deep in its mountains. The truth ...

The research found that standing woody biomass in Australia’s wet tropics was now losing about 0.9 tonnes of carbon per ...