New research shows warming tropical soils release far more carbon dioxide, risking faster global climate change.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A two-decade-old experiment in the tropical rainforest of Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, is beginning to reveal that human-assisted restoration of logged ...

A new interpretation of data from NASA’s Viking landers indicates that 0.1% of the Martian soil tested could have a biological origin. Dr Joop Houtkooper of the University of Giessen, Germany, ...

Question: What are the controls on biomass production and species diversity in Mediterranean grasslands? Do medium-term (i.e. inter-annual) precipitation legacy effects on biomass production and ...

Everyone is familiar with the light dome that shows from afar where cities are brightly lit at night. Artificial light that is scattered in the atmosphere and brightens the night sky can have an ...

Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Anna K. Schweiger, John A. Gamon, Hamed Gholizadeh, Kimberly Helzer, Cathleen Lapadat, Michael D. Madritch, Philip A. Townsend, Zhihui Wang and Sarah E. Hobbie Imaging ...

The Amazon rainforest is an intriguing subject for most conservationists and environmentalists. The planet highly depends on the dense forest cover of the largest rainforest for resources that extend ...