The Amazon rainforest currently has a few days or weeks of hot drought conditions per year, but researchers say this could ...

A long-term forest study shows that when soils dry under warming, microbes slow down and nitrogen gas emissions fall.

Warming is drying out forest soils and unexpectedly slowing nitrogen emissions, reshaping how these ecosystems respond to a ...

Just two months after its launch, the European Space Agency (ESA) Biomass satellite is already showing us Earth in a whole new light. On June 23 the ESA released the mission’s first images, which ...

The European Space Agency has put its Biomass satellite into orbit.

In dire times where global warming and climate change rule the planet, deforestation has become a key cause of this situation ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Planet Labs PBC (NYSE:PL), a leading provider of daily Earth data and insights, today released its Forest Carbon Monitoring product, consisting of quarterly, 3-meter ...

NEW YORK -- It's a tough time to be a tree. For this Earth Day, National Geographic has focused its lens on humanity's relationship with the world's 3 trillion trees and 10 billion acres of forest, ...

Forests occupy one third of the total land area of the Earth and hold around 80 per cent of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity. It is estimated that nearly one third of the global population depends ...

Earth's forests play a critical role in keeping our planet habitable. Often called the "lungs of the Earth," forests cover nearly one-third of the planet and absorb vast amounts of carbon dioxide from ...