A research team led by the University of Oxford has carried out the most comprehensive assessment to date of how logging and conversion to oil palm plantations affect tropical forest ecosystems.
resulting in large uncertainties in the overall forest GHG budget at the ecosystem level. Given that CH4 and N2O are ~30 and 300 times more effective, respectively, in warming the atmosphere than CO2 ...
Moreover, a decline in biodiversity will deepen the climate crisis, with consequences including reduced species abundance, local extinctions, and the rapid degradation or loss of ecosystems such as ...
Montana State University scientists say the frozen remnants of an ancient forest discovered 600 feet above the modern tree line on the Beartooth Plateau may portend possible changes for the alpine ...