Decision marks first time a genetically modified tree designed for forest restoration clears regulatory hurdle.

Halting deforestation and promoting restoration are at the core of strategies to confront the biodiversity and climate crises in tropical forests. Avoiding forest disturbances is also critically important but has received far less attention, and there is ...

Halting deforestation and promoting restoration are at the core of strategies to confront the biodiversity and climate crises in tropical forests. Avoiding forest disturbances is also critically impor...

Scientific Reports - Region-specific forest structure pathways reveal climate effects on old-growth tropical forest biomass

Climate change impacts in the Amazon, particularly heat and drought extremes, are increasing faster than average climate trends, with especially rapid changes in the central-northern region that has s...

Over the past 40 years, the same Amazon trees growing in Peru have started growing thinner, flimsier leaves. Scientists worry they’re being pushed to the brink.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

Earth will breach a long-standing target before the end of the decade, report says.

Scientific Reports - Region-specific forest structure pathways reveal climate effects on old-growth tropical forest biomass

Hannah J. Carle, Timothee Bonnett, Adrienne B. Nicotra, Elia Godoong, Andrew Hector, Patrick Meir, Michael J. O’Brien This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which…

Two trees from the same species can vary in how they transport and manage water, improving specieswide drought resilience

Background tree mortality is the ambient, natural death of trees that occurs without major disturbances. Using data from more than 24,000 forest plots across Canada and the United States, we found th...

An analysis of the relationships between aboveground biomass and various climatic factors in three major regions of tropical forest shows that understanding the complex interactions between climate, topography and soils is crucial to predict how climate change will affect carbon storage capacity.

Study of 56m-year-old leaves counters claims from Trump administration members of ‘benefits’ of fossil fuel pollution

The Amazon rainforest might be closer to a tipping point than scientists thought. Some fear that droughts and fire could nudge it into irreversible decline.

Satellite observations reveal accelerating aboveground biomass loss across Europe’s forests since 2018, increasingly driven by natural disturbances. These trends weaken the forest carbon sink and chal...

Newly found earthworks suggest about 3 million people might have lived in just about 3% of the forest’s entire area

The authors combine satellites, repeat airborne lidar, dynamic global vegetation models and field plot monitoring across the conterminous USA to show widespread continued carbon accumulation in mature...

Substack's new AI detector is measuring the wrong thing, and the people already gaming it are proving why.

Mixed planted forests (MPFs) are often considered more resilient to climate change and provide greater environmental benefits than monocultures. Yet, monocultures dominate tree plantation systems glob...

Countries such as Spain and France can expect fire regimes more like those of California as climate change favours hot, dry conditions, scientists suggest.

An analysis of the extent to which mining caused deforestation between 2001 and 2020 in areas near mines in sub-Saharan Africa could help conservation efforts.

Half of the aboveground biomass in forests is stored in a disproportionately small number of very tall trees. These giants are predicted to be more vulnerable to drought-induced damage because height ...

Background tree mortality is the ambient, natural death of trees that occurs without major disturbances. Using data from more than 24,000 forest plots across Canada and the United States, we found th...

Higher fire season temperatures are strongly correlated with increased area burned

As the world faces the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss, researchers are trying to understand how to restore degraded forests to most effectively sequester carbon, benefit biodivers...

Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 08 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s44358-026-00178-6Advances in remote sensing now enable the detection of multiple properties of tropical forest biodiversity. This Review discusses how remotely sensed biodiversity facets and essential biodiversity variables can be used to draw inference about tropical forest resilience to global change.

In Europe, trees are increasingly dying prematurely. A new study by the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) on French forests now shows that it is not only drought but also unusually warm or wet springs that increase the risk—even ideal growing conditions can prove fatal later on.

The biocultural heritage of the Amazon, its plant species, plant services and cultures are at risk from climate change.

New study challenges idea that tall trees’ hydraulics make them more vulnerable to dry conditions

Between 2023 and 2024, Amazonian rainforests experienced two consecutive, record-breaking droughts—each more intense than any previously observed—y...

Although considered a relatively stable successional stage, old-growth forests can be dynamic, owing to both endogenous (life history, population dyna…

Natural expansion of tropical moist forests sequesters more above-ground carbon than post-deforestation secondary forest regrowth, according to satellite-derived forest cover change and LiDAR-derived ...

Natural expansion of tropical moist forests sequesters more above-ground carbon than post-deforestation secondary forest regrowth, according to satellite-derived forest cover change and LiDAR-derived ...

We analyzed over 170,000 tropical ecology publications (1960–2023) using a large language model to extract study location and biome information at scale. We show that research has grown across all bi....

Jackson et al. focus on forest restoration in logged dipterocarp-dominated forests using an 18-year, 500-ha experiment in Borneo. This study demonstrates that liana cutting reduces tree mortality and ...