Forests constitute the largest carbon pool in terrestrial ecosystems. As a vital component of forest ecosystems, forest soils are not only central to global ...

Forest soils have an important role in protecting our climate: they remove large quantities of methane – a powerful greenhouse gas – from our atmosphere. Researchers from the University of Göttingen ...

Forests should not be seen as a “silver bullet” against climate change as deep soils there may be less effective at storing carbon in the long term than previously thought, new research suggests.

Researchers report that methane absorption has increased under shifting climate conditions, based on a long-term study conducted in Germany.

Before the United States 1970 Clean Air Act, rainfall all over the country was acidic. As precipitation would fall from the sky, it would mix with gases from industrial plants, emissions from cars, ...

Researchers have found that forest soils need several decades to recover from bushfires and logging -- much longer than previously thought. A landmark study from The Australian National University ...

Scientists investigated the differences in carbon storage of trees and soils along forest edges versus the interiors of temperate forests in the northeastern United States. They found that trees ...

Scientists predict that certain regions of the United States will experience higher levels of pollutants that cause smog, acid rain and respiratory problems due changes in forest soils from climate ...

Soil plays a big role in the global carbon cycle, but how much or how quickly forest soil carbon pools decline after logging is poorly understood. This may have serious implications for how carbon ...

The 2009 Black Saturday fires burned 437,000 hectares of Victoria, including tens of thousands of hectares of Mountain Ash forest. As we approach the tenth anniversary of these fires, we are reminded ...