Kauri are among Aotearoa New Zealand's tallest and longest-lived trees—and their place in our cultural landscape looms ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For decades, the climate science of trees and carbon logic felt somewhat simple: More carbon dioxide in the air means more ...

Less snow makes trees absorb less carbon, according to a new study. Twelve years ago in a northern New Hampshire forest, biologist Pamela Templer and her team laid heating cables under the soil of ...

Kenyan fig trees are doing something remarkable: they’re converting carbon dioxide from the air into limestone-like rocks stored in their trunks and surrounding soil. This natural alchemy, discovered ...

The biggest trees in the Peruvian Amazon store disproportionately more carbon than smaller trees do, a new study finds. But these larger trees are also the ones most likely to be harvested, which ...

A mature tree does more than shade a backyard or line a city street. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, a single mature tree can absorb more than 48 pounds of carbon dioxide per year, a ...

Through a decades-long study, UC Berkeley researchers discovered that consistent prescribed burns can help prevent wildfire risk and promote carbon sequestration, or the ability for plants to capture ...

After more than a century of fire suppression in California’s forests, mounting evidence shows that frequent fire — through practices like prescribed fire or Indigenous cultural burning — can improve ...

In a polytunnel on the Scottish island of Bute, thousands of spindly Scots pine seedlings are growing. On the surface, nothing could appear more commonplace than Scots pine growing in Scotland. But ...

WOODS HOLE — Safety pins, zip ties, and red lipstick are almost all that scientist Phil Colarusso needs to complete his study. That, and his scuba-diving gear. “High-tech science,” said Colarusso, a ...

Drawing down carbon from the air and stashing it in underground rock formations has been framed as an essential way to slow and reverse global warming. But new research published Wednesday in the ...