Researchers have successfully launched a new satellite that is designed to study the planet's forests and "provide unprecedented insight" into how those regions impact the Earth's carbon cycle, the ...

A team in Taiwan has engineered a new way for plants to absorb and use carbon dioxide, potentially reshaping the fight against climate change. By inserting an extra biochemical cycle into a model ...

Historically, nature has used trees to turn carbon dioxide back into oxygen for use by living creatures. The trees play a vital role in the carbon cycle, and have done so for millennia. Recently, ...

A new study has found the rainforest’s largest trees are thriving, and continue to play a major role in mitigating the ...

The ocean holds gigantic amounts of carbon, much more than all land-based plants and soil. Scientists previously studied ...