Up to two thirds of the world's temperate rainforests could fall victim to climate change by the year 2100 according to a new study. Up to two thirds of the world's temperate rainforests could fall ...

Could the boreal forest be less fragile than we think? Contrary to the predictions of models that forecast its rapid decline in favor of temperate maple forests, the ecological history of the boreal ...

Conservationists have long focused on saving the tropics and the Arctic, but a sweeping new study of 40,000 sites worldwide ...

A new global data set makes it possible to track near-real-time changes in several types of vegetation across different ecosystems, including grasslands, savannas, shrublands, croplands, temperate ...

Rapid deforestation due to expanding agriculture, logging, population centers, and other factors has been making headlines around the world for decades. Luckily, forests still cover more than 30 ...

Climate change poses a particular risk to pine trees growing in dry areas, a new study conducted in an urban recreational forest in Helsinki shows. Climate change poses a particular risk to pine trees ...

Declining snow accumulation in the mountains of the Northeastern U.S. will likely reduce the ability of forests to act as a carbon sink, a study has found. The shrinking snowpack and destructive ...

Temperate forests comprise complex networks of interactions among plants, animals, fungi and microorganisms that underpin ecosystem structure and function. Key processes include herbivory, predation, ...

Up to two thirds of the world's temperate rainforests could fall victim to climate change by the year 2100 according to a new study by researchers at the University of Leeds. In the first ever ...

Up to two thirds of the world’s temperate rainforests could fall victim to climate change by the year 2100 according to a new study by researchers at the University of Leeds. In the first ever ...