A University of Florida professor visited the University of Connecticut on Thursday, Feb. 5, to discuss the impact of habitat fragmentation and drought on tropical plants.

Trees play a central role in life on Earth. They store CO₂, provide habitats for animals, fungi, and insects, stabilize soils ...

Rainfall interception in forest ecosystems is a critical hydrological process whereby a portion of precipitation is captured by the canopy and subsequently redistributed via evaporation, throughfall, ...

Forests around the world are quietly transforming, and not for the better. A massive global analysis of more than 31,000 tree ...

Forests worldwide may be entering a new phase marked by fewer specialized tree species and more fast-growing generalists.

Climate change is causing trees to sprout earlier in spring. Nevertheless, some tree species are growing less. A study by the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL shows that increasing heat and ...

For over 50 years each spring, researchers with Connecticut’s Great Mountain Forest, nestled in the Litchfield Hills, have been recording how early three Persian Lilac trees begin to bud and flower.

The autumn leaves could show up late this year — and with softer shades. Why it matters: Fall foliage isn't just pretty scenery or a tourism draw — its timing and vibrancy could flag deeper forest ...

New research shows that even healthy tropical peat forests can release more warming gases due to water level changes and drought.

The launch of the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) at the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil underscores how the Amazon Forest can be part of the climate solution. There’s another Amazon, ...

CLIMATEWIRE | Carbon markets that fund forest preservation and tree-planting might actually be worsening climate change by increasing risks for wildfires that emit massive levels of greenhouse gases, ...