London's Kew Gardens will open a new garden focused on carbon that will showcase its importance in sustaining life, but also explore the role of carbon dioxide in the climate crisis and how plants can ...

Forests play a major role pulling planet-warming carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. As the world heats up, some forests are becoming emitters in their own right.

A new study provides the first estimates of lightning-killed trees, a crucial figure for understanding Earth's carbon cycle.

According to calculations published in the journal Global Change Biology by a research team at Germany’s Technical University ...

Peatlands cover just a fraction of Earth's surface, but store huge amounts of carbon. In the Peruvian Amazon, one of these ...

In the wake of a recent media report suggesting that India's forests are losing their ability to absorb carbon dioxide, ...

Indoor plants aren’t just great for looking at. They can also serve a great function, like improving the quality of air ...

The aesthetic value of trees is priceless. Imagine your world without trees to look at, or without their homes for birds and animals. They help clean our air by trapping pollutants in their leaves and ...

Columnist Dennis Sun writes, "For years now people have been blaming cattle for playing a large part in global warming by ...

Water is essential to a healthy plant, but how much do plants need? Testing the moisture level of soil is the best way to determine if a plant is getting the correct amount of water, even after a ...

A newly discovered pathway in a plant process could help farmers grow more successful crops, particularly in places where harsh, high light stresses plants.