Satellite images from space are allowing scientists to delve deeper into the individual functions of different tropical forest canopies with new and surprising results. Understanding tree traits and ...

As of the latest March 24 evening update, maps indicated that one fire in Polk County had hopped the Green River.

N.C. Forest Service has issued a statewide burn ban while three substantial, uncontained wildfires prompt mandatory ...

For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...

The study maps how the types of trees vary across tropical moist and dry forests, which host most of Earth's tree species. The findings show that tree traits are strongly shaped by long-term ...

Clearing of Amazonian forest boosts rainfall during the wet season, but reduces it in the dry season ... Observed reductions in rainfall due to tropical deforestation Qin et al.

In a new report, France's national weather service describes how France's climate would change if current climate policies ...

Wake Forest ... dry conditions through the winter dried out vegetation, leaving fuel for wildfires. When the land and vegetation is this dry, all it takes is a lightning strike or a man-made fire and ...

Experts at the Woodland Trust say part of the Smithills estate, within the West Pennine moors, has many indicators of it ...

We see the names of places and spaces on maps (or in ... wet, and dry climates. Though the jungle climate is similar or ...