The forest loss is also a major contributor of climate-warming emissions, with the dense tropical forest vegetation representing the largest living reservoir of carbon. Logging and land conversion ...

Govindasamy Bala and Ken Caldeira found that tropical forests help cool the Earth in two ways: by storing carbon and also by reflecting the suns warming rays back to space 5. “Unlike tropical ...

The experiment lasted eight months, making it one of the longest running in-situ leaf warming experiments in a mature tropical forest. By comparing the physiological responses of warmed leaves to ...

Deforestation is a major man-made source of greenhouse gas emissions, and is especially significant in countries with large tropical forests, including Brazil and Indonesia as well as countries in ...

The increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) is now incompatible with IPCC pathways which remain below 1.5°C, a Met Office study finds.

Tropical rainforests ... canopy and the forest floor. There are many causes of rainforest deforestation, which leads to loss of habitats, soil erosion, flooding and global warming.

Kristine Crous Warming the leaves of tropical rainforest trees To test this theory, we set up an experiment in the Daintree rainforest focusing on tropical trees between 15 and 30 metres tall.

Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is increasing at rates that are incompatible with staying below 1.5 degrees Celsius (34.7 ...