Author: Tim Radford, Climate News Network

A new study for the first time offers foresters, botanists and conservationists the tools to test the health of a vast woodland.

The northern hemisphere is experiencing a much earlier spring due to global warming, causing problems for plants and wildlife as the natural cycle goes out of sync.

US scientists provide new reality check for Donald Trump on the combined stresses of global warming and the rising costs of water.

Scientists in the US and China have fashioned the ultimate in power dressing: a fabric that recovers energy from movement, and at the same time turns sunlight into electricity.

Swiss experiment on the interdependence of trees gets to the roots of the role forests play in managing atmospheric carbon for the rest of the living world.

The Amazon forests’ large mammals play a key role in maintaining the ecosystem that removes CO2 from the atmosphere and helps to slow climate change.

Human society without fire is unthinkable. But a new book says we need to think of a world where fire gives way to electricity.