A two-decade-long experiment in the Sierra Nevada found that regular prescribed burns promote carbon sequestration in live ...

A two-decade-long experiment in the Sierra Nevada found that regular prescribed burns promote carbon sequestration in live trees and plants, maintaining forests' long-term ability to store carbon ...

Forests are key regulators of the Earth’s carbon and water cycles, yet their resilience is increasingly challenged by global warming, recurrent heatwaves, ...

Forest modeling by Oregon State University scientists shows that a site’s productivity – an indicator of how fast trees grow and how much biomass they accumulate – is the main factor that determines ...

One of the most contentious debates during the recent climate talks centered on the possible use of forests as credit towards reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide. Although it has long been assumed ...

Carbon sequestration or sinks can have a role when reducing the overall emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas. This is WWF's position on carbon sinks. Climate change is happening.

You may have heard recent claims that call into question how the Forest Service cares for our public forests and wildlife. Many of these claims are not accurate, and I’m compelled to set the record ...

Since the first industrial revolution, the rapid development of the human economy and society has directly exacerbated the process of CO 2 emission from human activities such as fossil fuel combustion ...

A research team led by the South China Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with multiple ...

Whether by land, by sea or through human innovation, carbon sequestration is likely coming to (or already happening in) a destination near you. As our planet, overdosed on greenhouse gases, battles ...