14-02-14 Orangutans come down from the trees and spend more time on the ground than previously realised -- but this behaviour may be partly influenced by humans, a new study has found. Dr Mark Harrison, based in the Department of Geography at the University...

14-01-28 New research from Queen's University Belfast shows that the tropical forests of South East Asia have been shaped by humans for the last 11,000 years. The rain forests of Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Thailand and Vietnam were previously thought to have bee...

13-10-29 As global forest and climate experts gather at the Oslo REDD Exchange 2013 to ramp up（斜升，加强） international efforts to protect carbon-storing forests in the developing world, a recent study by researchers at the Nairobi-based World Agroforestr...

13-09-06 Forests in the northeastern US have been radically transformed over the last four centuries by human activity, and their relationship with climate factors like rainfall weakened, according to research published September 4 in the open access journal...

13-08-29 Scientists expect the future climate to become warmer, and that this will apply to the Arctic in particular. Here the temperature is expected to increase considerably more than the average on Earth, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climat...

13-08-08 Forests have a limited capacity to soak up atmospheric carbon dioxide, according to a new study from Northern Arizona University. The study, available online in the journal New Phytologist, aimed to explore how rising atmospheric carbon dioxide coul...

13-07-22 Logging in one of the world's largest rainforests has slowed, a study suggests. 一项调查显示，一处世界最大的热带雨林之中的伐木进程已经放缓。 Satellite images of Africa's Congo Basin reveal that deforestation has fallen by about a third since 2000. R...

13-07-22 For nearly a century, the only bears known to reside in Missouri were on the state flag or in captivity. Unregulated hunting and habitat loss had wiped out most black bears in Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma by the 1920s. Now, thanks to a reintroduc...

13-07-09 A new study led by Florida State University researcher Stephanie Pau shows that tropical forests are producing more flowers in response to only slight increases in temperature. The study examined how changes in temperature, clouds and rainfall affec...

13-06-29 Predicted increases in temperature and drought in the coming century may make it more difficult for conifers（松柏类） such as ponderosa pine（杰克松） to regenerate after major forest fires on dry, low-elevation sites, in some cases leading to conv...