In the fight against the climate crisis, countries are pinning great hope in reforestation projects. In a new study, ETH ...

Rainfall interception in forest ecosystems is a critical hydrological process whereby a portion of precipitation is captured by the canopy and subsequently redistributed via evaporation, throughfall, ...

Tropical forests help to generate vast amounts of rainfall each year, adding weight to arguments for protecting them as water and climate pressures increase, say researchers. A new study led by the ...

Examples of FAF systems a, Commercial tropical agroforestry plantation system operated by a large private landowner on the lowland west central coast of Sri Lanka. b, Cultural keystone food forest ...

The Amazon Basin lost about 27,000 square kilometers of forest each year from 2001 to 2016. By 2021, about 17% of the basin had been deforested. Changes to forest cover can affect surface albedo, ...

On a brisk September morning, Brian Palik’s footfalls land quietly on a path in flickering light beneath a red pine canopy in Minnesota’s iconic Northwoods. A mature red pine, also called Norway pine, ...

For over 50 years each spring, researchers with Connecticut’s Great Mountain Forest, nestled in the Litchfield Hills, have been recording how early three Persian Lilac trees begin to bud and flower.

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Researchers have shared a hopeful finding from India, showing that despite conventional wisdom, there isn’t an inherent trade-off between forest conservation and farmland. In fact, a program to ...