A study published in Nature reveals that small areas of deforestation, often less than 5 acres (about 2 hectares), in humid tropical forests are responsible for more than half of carbon losses ...

An analysis led by the University of Leicester shows that the African continent lost around 106 billion kilograms of forest biomass each year between 2010 and 2017. New research suggests that Africa’s ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A Nature study reveals surprising similarities among the most common tree species in tropical rainforests in Africa, the Amazon and Southeast Asia, ...

Young tropical forests play a crucial role in slowing climate change. Growing trees absorb carbon dioxide from the air, using photosynthesis to build it into their roots, trunks, and branches, where ...

"A symposium planned by the Association for Tropical Biology to be held in Ghana, West Africa, during February of 1971" Copy 1 (STRI) 7620. (cont.) Evolutionary relationships between flowering plants ...

Professor Heiko Balzter, Dr Nezha Acil (right) and University of Leicester colleagues at a zoobotanical garden at the Museu Emilio Goeldi in Belém, with trees and animals from the Amazon.

For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers is revealing unexpected ways to protect the planet. At sunset, humid air ...

In most forests, a visitor’s eye is trained on what can be reached. The trunk can be measured. The leaves can be plucked. A ...

Liberia's remaining tropical rainforests, among the last intact stretches of the Upper Guinean forest ecosystem, are facing an accelerating threat driven not from within the country alone, but from ...