A study published in Nature reveals that small areas of deforestation, often less than 5 acres (about 2 hectares), in humid tropical forests are responsible for more than half of carbon losses ...

An analysis led by the University of Leicester shows that the African continent lost around 106 billion kilograms of forest biomass each year between 2010 and 2017. New research suggests that Africa’s ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A Nature study reveals surprising similarities among the most common tree species in tropical rainforests in Africa, the Amazon and Southeast Asia, ...

Climate change and human activities like deforestation are causing more fires in central and west Africa's wet, tropical forests, according to the first-ever comprehensive survey there. The fires have ...

"A symposium planned by the Association for Tropical Biology to be held in Ghana, West Africa, during February of 1971" Copy 1 (STRI) 7620. (cont.) Evolutionary relationships between flowering plants ...

New research warns that Africa's forests, once vital allies in the fight against climate change, have turned from a carbon sink into a carbon source. A new international study published in Scientific ...

Young tropical forests play a crucial role in slowing climate change. Growing trees absorb carbon dioxide from the air, using photosynthesis to build it into their roots, trunks, and branches, where ...

Over time, rainforest communities in Africa have developed a close relationship with their neighbours, the so-called 'umbrella species' such as great apes and elephants. Umbrella species are often ...

Professor Heiko Balzter, Dr Nezha Acil (right) and University of Leicester colleagues at a zoobotanical garden at the Museu Emilio Goeldi in Belém, with trees and animals from the Amazon.

In most forests, a visitor’s eye is trained on what can be reached. The trunk can be measured. The leaves can be plucked. A ...