Scientists claim to have located the 'missing carbon sink' in tropical forests that are absorbing around one billion tonnes more carbon than previously thought. Jane Burgermeister investigates.

According to data reviewed and analyzed by Colorado State University researchers, Colorado's forest as a collective is now ...

Colorado's forests store a massive amount of carbon, but dying trees -- mostly due to insects and disease -- have caused the state's forests to emit more carbon than they absorbed in recent years, ...

Wang explains, "Our novel approach highlights how increasing phosphorus limitation and deforestation reduce the carbon sink potential of tropical forests, emphasizing the critical role of ...

Conserving and restoring Southeast Asia’s carbon-rich peatlands and mangroves could mitigate more than 50 per cent of the ...

As a result, this double deficiency is hindering our ability to understand and predict the land carbon sink, particularly in tropical forests, which grow on phosphorus poor soils. I am collaborating ...

But land degradation and deforestation isn't just a concern for tropical countries ... to provide more precise measurements of forest carbon sinks. The product relies on machine-learning models ...

A study in Forest Ecosystems shows that particulate organic carbon (POC) dominates surface soils, while mineral-associated organic carbon (MAOC) prevails in deeper soils across eastern China’s forests ...

Degraded forest land in the Brazilian Amazon. Carbon uptake and storage in tropical primary and secondary forests varies place to place depending upon soil properties, climatic conditions ...

The Met Office said the increase was due to record high emissions from fossil fuel burning, natural "sinks" such as tropical forests capturing less carbon, and wildfires. The reduction in carbon ...

Conserving and restoring Southeast Asia's carbon-rich peatlands and mangroves could mitigate more than 50 per cent of the region's land-use carbon emissions, according to a new international study.