The velvet worm, a squishy little predator that looks like the stretch-limo version of a caterpillar, has a whimsical MO: it ...

The second bias arises because natural wind patterns caused the night-time and daytime fluxes to be associated with different areas of the forest. In particular, in June and July (but not in ...

Various types of forests, such as monsoon forests, mangrove forests and temperate forests ... during the day and 68 degrees F (20 degrees C) at night. You may like Plants: Facts about our oxygen ...

Photosynthesis is driven by light and thus happens only during the day, whereas plant and microbial respiration occurs continuously. Therefore, faster night-time warming presumably affects ...

Keeping forests standing would lessen both the number and size of spring floods in temperate regions, according to a new study in Water Resources Research, by slowing seasonal snow melts.

But a new study says that despite emitting heat-trapping methane and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, fires in temperate zone (or boreal) forests may actually cool the climate significantly ...

Forest loss varied by region, with tropical mountains losing forests almost three times faster than temperate forests and more than eight times faster than boreal forests. The expansion of farming ...