Discover how nearly two decades of satellite data—and the new Biomass mission—are helping scientists map forest carbon across ...

“It’s possible this tree ... U.S. Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis project estimates that northern Maine’s ...

Forests without top predators (such as tigers) risk being overgrazed by large herbivore prey, depleting vegetation carbon ...

And quite a bit of work at that: forests annually remove nearly 30% of human-generated CO₂ emissions. The largest 1% of trees by diameter in a mature forest can store half its carbon.

Soil moisture and fuels, not fire weather, are the primary predictors of carbon emissions in boreal forests. As climate warming ... uncovered were complex — soil moisture, tree species composition and ...