When it comes to cooling the planet, tropical forests serve an important purpose as “carbon sinks”—their trees absorb carbon ...

Australia's tropical rainforests are among the first in the world to start leaking more carbon dioxide than they absorb, ...

Australia’s rainforests are now releasing more carbon than they absorb, as heat, drought, and storms push them past a tipping ...

The research found that standing woody biomass in Australia’s wet tropics was now losing about 0.9 tonnes of carbon per ...

"We rely on them more than most people realise," Dr. Hannah Carle said of rainforests, which are beginning to operate ...

A new study led by the U.S. Forest Service, with Chapman University as a key senior collaborator, published in Nature Communications, suggests Earth's own tropical soils may contribute to climate ...

Australian tropical rainforest trees have become the first in the world to switch from being a carbon sink to an emissions ...

A new study has found Queensland's tropical rainforests emit more carbon than they absorb, raising concerns for Australia's ...

Australia's tropical rainforests are among the first in the world to start emitting more carbon dioxide than they absorb, ...

The trunks and branches of trees in Australia's tropical rainforests—also known as woody biomass—have become a net source of ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Humans have degraded or destroyed roughly two-thirds of the world's original tropical rainforest cover, new data reveals – raising alarm that a key natural buffer against climate ...

Australia's tropical rainforests have become the first in the world to release more carbon than they absorb, in a trend ...