China has spent decades turning the edge of the Taklamakan Desert into a living barrier, planting trees and shrubs where bare ...

Huge-scale ecological engineering around the edges of one of the world's largest and driest deserts has turned it into a ...

By Ben Aris in Berlin Extreme weather has led to anexplosion of deadly wildfires around the world that are turning forests that should be a CO₂ sink into major sources of additional emissions as the ...

Australia's tropical rainforests are among the first in the world to start emitting more carbon dioxide than they absorb, scientists said Thursday, linking the "very concerning" trend to climate ...

Melting ice from West Antarctica once delivered huge amounts of iron to the Southern Ocean, but algae growth did not increase as expected. Researchers found the iron was in a form that marine life ...

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. Global fossil fuel emissions are projected to rise ...

Carbon sinks and sources in global forests (Pg C year-1) expressed as the mean annual rate across the full three-decadal period 1990 to 2019. Positive values represent carbon sinks, while negative ...

After millennia as a carbon deep-freezer for the planet, regional hotspots and increasingly frequent wildfires in the northern latitudes have nearly canceled out that critical storage capacity in the ...

From warming temperatures to reversing ocean acidification, discover what would happen if oceans stopped absorbing carbon ...