The conversion of rainforest into plantations erodes and restructures food webs and fundamentally changes the way these ecosystems function, according to a new study published in Nature. The findings ...

Tropical forests are among the world's most important carbon sinks. A new study by the Technical University of Munich (TUM), ...

“A major question is whether a large-scale collapse of the Amazon forest system could actually happen within the twenty-first century.” (Source: Bernardo M. Flores, et al, Critical Transitions in the ...

A team of international scientists led by researchers from Australian universities has found the first evidence that woody biomass in tropical rainforests is acting as a long-term source of carbon ...

Researchers have published new findings on how leaf-eating insects affect forest ecosystems worldwide. Researchers are aware of how large herbivores cycle nutrients in forests. They know much less, ...

Researchers studied rainforests in northeastern Australia. These wet rainforests are very dense, and their canopies help cool down their ecosystems and store large amounts of carbon. Robert Linsdell ...

In recent decades, climate change has modified the growth of forests, mainly due to increasing temperature and altered ...

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This video investigates whether a true rainforest exists in Pennsylvania by exploring climate zones, rainfall patterns, and forest ecosystems in the eastern United States. In the Pocono Mountains, ...