Scientists have discovered that ponderosa pines effectively stop breathing when beset by wildfire smoke.

California should take urgent and bold measures to adapt its $59 billion agriculture sector to climate change as the amount of water available for crops declines, according to a collaborative report by University of California faculty from four campuses.

Forests are often described as the ‘lungs of the Earth’, absorbing twice as much carbon as they emit, acting as carbon sinks (storing CO2 in their branches, roots and leaves).

An international team of researchers has found that nitrogen emissions from fertilisers and fossil fuels have a net cooling effect on the climate.

New, non-native plant species are constantly being found in Svalbard, and researchers are working to ascertain what threat these species pose to the native plants.

For many years, we have known that trees are nature's champions at absorbing carbon dioxide.

Butterflies and moths collect so much static electricity whilst in flight, that pollen grains from flowers can be pulled by static electricity across air gaps of several millimetres or centimetres.

Lead levels in moss are as much as 600 times higher in older Portland neighborhoods where lead-sheathed telecommunications cables were once used compared to lead levels in nearby rural areas, a new study of urban moss has found.

Researchers at the University of Cambridge demonstrate that the plant hormone gibberellin (GA) is essential for the formation and maturation of nitrogen-fixing root nodules in legumes and can also increase nodule size.

Trees in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest are migrating in search of more favourable temperatures with species in mountain forests moving uphill to escape rising heat caused by climate change, a new study reveals.