New research tracking 1.8 million trees found that tall trees died at more than twice the rate of smaller ones toward the end of extreme and persistent drought.Read More »
A satellite-based early-warning signal may spot the start of a forest’s decline and give forest managers more time to save its life.Read More »Biogeosciences
A rare attempt to directly estimate leaf area in a tropical African broadleaved forest suggests that there may be more tree foliage than previously estimated.Read More »Biogeosciences
Forest elephants are the “gardeners of the Congo.” How might their dwindling population affect carbon storage in the world’s second-largest tropical forest?Read More »Biogeosciences
Researchers say it’s the oldest-known living tree in eastern North America. If it hadn’t been protected, it could have ended up as garden mulch.Read More »
Wizened bristlecone pines in California reveal past climate trends, and new research shows how slight variations in landscape position drive different growth patterns in trees’ annual rings.Read More »Biogeosciences
Simulating the dynamic nature of plant root profiles in Earth system models improves the representation of the carbon and water cycles.Read More »Biogeosciences
Growing plants near building air vents may help them grow better, while reducing the carbon emissions from the people exhaling inside.Read More »Geohealth
