If you liked this story, share it with other people. A major political and environmental dispute is heating up as the forestry industry and governments promote forest biomass — cutting trees, turning ...

A global analysis of field experiments suggests that biochar, a carbon-rich material made by heating organic biomass with limited oxygen, can significantly increase soil microbial biomass carbon, an ...

Aboveground biomass (AGB) of rice, vital for carbon pool and yield estimation, is traditionally measured through labor-intensive manual sampling. Recent advancements employ remote sensing, ...

A forest can return without being planted, but the pace and character of that recovery can depend heavily on what happens at the beginning. In southern Costa Rica, researchers have been following ...

For more than two decades, scientists have been deliberately starving a small section of the Amazon rainforest of rain to understand how the world's largest tropical forest might respond to a much ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A surge in Indonesia’s wood pellet and chip production is driving a new wave of deforestation, threatening the vast archipelago’s remaining tropical forests, vital biodiversity hot ...