Deep in Brazil's Amazon, scientists have built a "time machine" pumping carbon dioxide into the rainforest canopy to simulate atmospheric conditions predicted for the future to gauge how the biome ...

Scientists have built a 'time machine' in Brazil's Amazon to simulate future atmospheric conditions, gauging the rainforest's adaptation to climate change. The project, AmazonFACE, involves fumigating ...

A significant number of trees in tropical ecosystems are being subjected to a dangerously high temperature threshold where the process of photosynthesis begins to fail, new research has found. The ...

UC Davis economist Stephen Vosti and his collaborators have received an international science award for their efforts to save tropical rain forests and reduce poverty by addressing the economic and ...

The idea that tropical forest and savanna are alternative states is crucial to how we manage these biomes and predict their future under global change. Large-scale empirical evidence for alternative ...

Preventing the re-clearing of second-growth forests is a major challenge for restoration efforts in tropical regions, according to a new study led by researchers from Columbia University, University ...

The ‘Protected Areas of the Caatinga Dry Tropical Forest’ constitutes a serial property that encompasses some of the most intact ecosystems of the Caatinga, the only biome found exclusively in Brazil ...