International agreements, 'debt for nature' swaps and selective logging and replanting of trees can all be used to help reduce deforestation. Rainforests have four main layers: the emergent ...

Our knowledge of the ecology of tropical rain-forest trees is limited, with detailed information available for perhaps only a few hundred of the many thousand of species that occur. Yet a good ...

Research shows that, instead of replanting rainforests, allowing them to bounce back naturally would store loads of carbon ...

The only continent where amber had not been found no longer has that distinction, thanks to a sediment core drilled just ...

Wistman's Wood on Dartmoor is home to trees covered in lichen The National Trust plans to create vast new areas of temperate rainforest in the south-west of England. More than 100,000 trees will ...

Along with fossils of roots, pollen, and spores, the amber provides some of the best evidence yet that a mid-Cretaceous, ...

Picture Antarctica—not as an endless expanse of snow and ice, but as a lush, green rainforest teeming with towering trees and ...

Scientists have discovered amber deep below the surface of the Antarctic, evidence of a temperature rainforest 90 million ...