Trees do not stand in contrast to their environments, but sense their environments and adjust their form accordingly. Any particular tree expresses its environment, and its environment is, in turn, an expression of the tree.
Rooted
State of the world's forests
Scientists reveal 'woodquakes'
The world's most southerly trees
The most amazing thing about trees
The world's oldest trees by starlight
These ancient trees have stories to tell
When you give a tree an email address
The Earth has lungs. Watch them breathe
How forest structure influences the water cycle
New information from watching a forest breathe
How trees secretly talk to each other in the forest
Handful of heavyweight trees per acre are forests champs
Sustainabl e forest biomass: a review of current residue harvesting guidelines
Specific trees:
The wind in the willows
Genome sequence of the olive tree
How cherry blossoms came to the US
Do palm trees hold the key to immortality?
Pollen can protect mahogany from extinction
Liana diversity explained by clones, disturbances
Stunning 360 pictures reveal tops of giant sequoias
Bishop Pines on Santa Cruz Island: fog and forests
The 5,000 year-old tree that holds clues to life and death
Natural teak forests decline, while plalnted teak forests increase
Distribution of living Cupressaceae reflects the breakup of Pangea
Isolating eucalyptus genes for oils, biofules: the secrets of secretion
Where's the oldest tree on Earth - and will it survive climate change?
Madagascar's sacred trees face existential threats in a changing world
The fight to protect the wworld's most trafficked wild commodity - rosewood
Higher marker density GWAS provides novel insights into genomics of terpene oil in eucalypts
Redwood trees reveal history of West Coast rain, fog, ocean conditions Video of US redwoods
Forests and Drought:
The future of forests
To define future of forests, first define forests
Ultrasond reveals trees' drought-survival secrets
Even California's mighty oaks are dying from drought
Tipping point of conifer forest ecosystem under severe drought
Water, not temperature, limits global forest growth as climate warms
Rising global temperatures accelerate drought-induced forest mortality
Increasing drought stress predicted to challenge vulnerable hydraulic system of plants
Working with plants, soils and water to cool the climate and rehydrate Earth's landscapes
Forests, atmospheric water and an uncertain future: the new biology of the global water cycle
A global overview of drought & heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change forest risks
Forests and Climate Change:
Forests, health and climate change
How will climate change affect trees?
Forests could be global warming factor
New analysis links tree height to climate
Warming could slow upslope migration of trees
Trees, forests and water: cool insights for a hot world
Forests in a water limited world under climate change
Study fibds that forest protection is key to reliable rainfall
Scientists seek out forest traditions in climate change fight
Changing atmosphere affects how much water trees need
How pine beetles can predict the future of climate changes
In forests, climate change brings complicated cosequences
Trees on tundra’s border are growing faster in a hotter climate
Deforestation of sandy soils a greater threat to climate change
The fate of trees: how climate change may alter forests worldwide
Polluters are using forests as 'carbon offsets'. Climate change has other plans
Adaptation of forests and people to climate change - a global assesment report
How anthropogenic emissions interact with organic compounds emitted by trees
Forests fight global warming in ways more important than previously understood
Synergies between climate mitigation and adaptation in forest landscape restoration
Securing rights, combating climate change: strengthening community forest rights mitigates climate change
Forests, Carbon Sources or Sinks, and Carbon Storage:
A carbon sink that can't be filled
Palm oil massive source of CO2
The carbon footprint of flowering trees
Trees trade carbon among each other
Trees continue to grow at a faster rate
Nutrient-rich forests absorb more carbon
The carbon costs of global wood harvests
Variations in carbon storage among tree species
Tropical forests are losing their ability to soak up carbon
Drivers of GHGs from standing dead trees in ghosts forests
Global warming may affect the capacity of trees to store carbon
Oldest trees are growing faster, storing more carbon as they age
NASA study finds tropical forests' ability to absorb CO2 is waning
Increased atmospheric CO2 makes trees use water more effiiciently
A forest by any other name? Semantics, carbon implications, and solutions
The impact of tree age on biomass growth and carbon accumulation capacity
Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests
The biggest trees capture the most carbon - large trees dominate carbon storage in forests
As climate changes, Boreal forests to shift north and relinquish more carbon than expected
Global tree cover and biomass on agricultural land: the contribution of agroforestry to carbon budgets
Managing forests because carbon matters: integrating energy, products, and land management policy
Forests and their sub-soils:
Forests and landslides
Trees: more than just carbon sinks
Satellite images uncover underground forest fungi
UN project shows how trees help halt desertification
New tool offers unprecedented access for root studies
Soil's microbial market shows the ruthless side of forests
Tree roots in the mountains act like thermostat for global climate
Temperate forest soils may be poor carbon store in elevated CO2 world
Rising carbon dioxide in atmosphere also speeds carbon loss from forest soils
Higher subsoil carbon storage in species-rich than species-poor temperate forests
Forest succession, soil carbon accumulation & rapid nitrogen storage in poorly remineralized soil matter
Poleward expansion of mangroves is a threshold response to decreased frequency of extreme cold events
Forest fires:
Study suggests climate change limits forest recovery after wildfires
Low-intensity fires mitigate the risk of high-intenisty wildfires in California's forests
Data base support for simple models of post-fire tree mortality for thick-barked conifers
Forest Loss:
Worldwide loss of interior forest
Climate change cripples forests
Only two intact forests left on Earth
World's primary forests 'on the brink'
World forest area still on the decline
How fast is the world losing its forests?
The bigger they are, the harder they fall
Forests most likely to continue shrinking
Forest losses increase local temperatures
New online tool tracks tree loss in 'near real time'
Increased UV from ozone depletion sterilizes trees
Forest mortality and climate change: the big picture
Satellite technology yields new forest loss estimates
Drought-induced tree mortality accelerating in forests
World's giant trees are dying off rapidly, studies show
Deforestation is messing with our weather and our food
Large trees - key climate indicators - die first in a drought
One of the most resilient trees on Earth is dying in droves
Storm damage to forests costs billions - here's how AI can help
Study forecast disappearance of conifers due to climate change
Researchers find the world's forests are fragmenting at a quick pace
Deforested areas are highly susceptible to drastic temperature changes
Forest loss in protected areas and intact forest landscapes: a global analyses
NASA-USGS Landsat data yield best view to date of global forest losses. gains
An assessment of deforestation and forest degradation drivers in developing countries
An evoutionary ecology perspective to address forest pathology challenges of today and tomorrow
New global 'ratings agency' ranks the 500 institutions that have the power to end deforestation by 2020
Forest Mapping:
Global Forest Map
Mapping the world's forests in 3D
Citizen science maps global forests
International network to spy on trees
A LIDAR's-eye view of how forests are faring
Russia home to largest number of trees globally
New forest land classification data set launched
Seeing the forest and the trees, all 3 trillion of them
Wood wide web: 'trees' social networks are mapped
Landsat sets the standard for maps of world's forests
Mapping forest canopy height globally with spaceborne lidar
New map of palm oil plantations could help save rain forests
A national and international analysis of changing forest density
Found: 'lost' forests covering an area 2/3rds the size of Australia
Satellites help scientists see forests for the trees amid climate change
Global characterization and monitoring of forest cover using Landsat data
Mapping tropical forest trees using high-resolution aerial digital photographs
Mapping tropical disturbed forests using multi-decadal 30m optical satellite imagery
The Forest Observation System, buildiing a global reference dataset for remote sensing of forest biomass
Forest restoration:
Global tree restoration potential
'Come out of the forests' to save the trees
Comment on "The global tree restoration potential"
Forest dynamics:
Efficiency in the forest
How do trees go to sleep?
Engineers design 'tree-on-a-chip'
Warm winters let trees sleep longer
How forest structure drives productivity
10+ amazing examples of 'crown shyness'
The protective layer of prehistoric land plants
Trees' surprising role in the boreal water cycle
A forect 'glow' reveals awakening from hibernation
Researchers grow cyberforests to predict climate change
Long-term changes in dead wood reveal new forest dynamics
Trees employ similar strategies to out compete their neighbors
Winter's over and it's time to grow again - how does a tree know?
Geological respiration of a mountain belt revealed by the trace element rhenium
Data-based deficit approach to understanding climate extremes and forest carbon assimilation capacity
A generic 3D finite element model of tree anchorage with soil mechanics and real root system architecture
Symmetric self-similarity in trees predicts hydraulics, mechanics, light interception and metabolic scaling
Tree pests & diseases:
Insect infestations alter forest carbon cycle
Every forest biome is actively dying right now
Rising concerns over tree pests and diseases
Sudden oak death taking a toll on US West Coast
Diseased trees are a source of climate-changing gas
DNA fingerprinting to understand the immunity of trees
A mysterious new pest has scientists sounding the alarm
As climate warms, bark beetles march on high-elevation forests
Beetle-infested pine trees contribute to air pollution and haze in forests
Death of hemlock trees yields new life for hardwood trees, but at what cost to the ecosystem?
Tropical Forests:
Tropical forests 'better managed'
Saving tropics could cut emissions
Tropical forests 're-shaped' by climate changes
Deforestation monitoring method for tropical regions
Tropical ecosystems boost CO2 as temperatures rise
Multiple use management of tropical production forests
Humid tropical forest disturbance alerts using Landsat data
Tropical forest carbon absorption may hinge on an odd couple
Effects of past tropical deforestation will be felt for years to come
Detailed vegetation height estimates across the tropics released
Coffee pulp accelerates early tropical forest succession on old fields
Tropical forest ecosystem response to increasing nutrient availability
Climate polices alone will not save Earth's most diverse tropical forests
Tropical forests and climate change: filling knowledge gaps in a different way
Global consumption an increasingly significant driver of tropical deforestation
Felling of tropical trees has soared, satellite shows, not slowed as UN study found
Forest and agroecosystem tradeoffs in the humid tropics (tropical forest margins)
Rainforests:
Rainforests
Rainforest Facts
Loss of tropical forests reduces rain
There's a limit to the rainforest's carbon storage abilities
Where does moisture come from over the Congo Basin?
Researchers discover evidence of rainforest resilience to global warming
Clearing rainforests distorts wind and water, packs climate wallop beyond carbon
Seeing the forest from the trees - identifying critical life stages for rainforest diversity
REDD & REDD+:
Afforestation
Deforestation
Estimating the Opportunity Costs of REDD
Alternatives to slash and burn (ASB) programme
Exploring the biophysical option space for feeding the world without deforestation
New study suggests global pacts Like REDD ignore primary causes of destruction of forests
How countries link REDD+ intervaentions to drivers in their readiness plans: implications for monitoring
Tree leaves:
Cloud forest trees drink water through their leaves
Leaf vein architecture solves mysteries, allows predictions of past climate
Tree canopies:
Canopy structure explains supposed link between leaf nitrogen and climate
Wood growing and wood products:
Superwood could replace steel
Forest model predicts canopy competition
Mimicking wood's ultrastructure with 3D printing
A.I. Timber:the future of sustainable construction
One tree's architecture reveals secrets of a forest
Tree growth model assists breeding for more wood
A fast, scalable approach to making wood transparent
Researchers design trees that make it easier to produce pulp
Researchers have now made wood that you can fold and mold
Model forecasts long-term impacts of forest land-use decisions
Using sphere packing models to explain the structure of forests
Modelling water uptake in wood opens up new design framework
Staying in shape: how wood chemistry relates to structural stability
Measuring, monitoring, and verification of carbon benefits for forest-based projects
Forestry Economics:
Paying for forests has multiple benefits
Recognizing the economic benefits of Nature
Richer forest biodiversity could rake in billions
Forestry insurance: a largely untapped potential
Bankers take centre stage in fight to save rainforests
What's the value of afforestation and bioenergy CCS?
Sustainable forst biomass: a review of current residue harvesting guidelines
Forest Palentology:
World's oldest known fossil forest found in quarry in upper New York state
Illegal wood trade:
The 'timber detectives' on the front lines of the illegal wood trade
Regional:
South America:
Seeing the forest for the trees
Drone to scan for ancient Amazonia
Brazil passes 'retrograde' forest code
The Amazon is burning at record rates
Tree rings go with the flow of the Amazon
Seeing the Amazon's future through the fog
Forests and climate change in Latin America
Amazon's canopy chemistry is a patchwork quilt
Untangling Brazil's controversial new forest code
Forest carbon monitoring breakthrough in Colombia
Africa's earth, wind and fire keep the Amazon green
Amazon's carbon uptake declines as trees die faster
Brazil: Amazon rainforest deforestation rises sharply
Deforestation could exacerbate drought in the Amazon
Forging fire resilience on Amazon forest fringes in Peru
Fossils of ancient Australasian trees found in Patagonia
Modeling Amazonian transitional forest micrometeorology
Amazon deforestation could mean drought for western US
Iconic Australasian trees found as fossils in South America
Visit the Amazon on World Forest Day with Google's Streetview
Mass tree deaths prompt fears of Amazon 'climate tipping point'
Amazon rain forests responds quickly to extreme climate events
In a besieged Amazon, people take up cameras to save their land
Fire and drought may push Amazonian forest beyond tipping point
NASA satellites detect extensive drought impact on Amazon forests
Warming climate unlikely to cause extinction of ancient Amazon trees
Amazon rainforest was shaped by an ancient hunger for fruits and nuts
Why did Mayan civilization collapse? Deforestation and climate change
Pronounced loss of Amazon rain forest resilience since the early 2000s
Land cover dynamics following a deforestation ban in northern Costa Rica
Forests and climate change in Latin America: linking adaptation and mitigation
Study reinforces the Amazon forest's importance in reguating atmospheric chemistry
Land use patterns and related carbon losses following deforestation in South America
Carbon emissions from deforestation and forest fragmentation in the Brazilian Amazon
Satellite observation of tropical forect seasonality: Spatial patterns of carbon exchange in Amazonia
Integrating ecosystem- and community-based adaptation: lessons from model forests in Latin America
Our 'tropical' Arctic
North America:
California redwoods
US evergreens at risk
Wildfire and pine beetles
Urban forests of Tennessee
Heat & drought are killing our forests
US Forest Service engagement service
US forest products in the global economy
Tree die-off triggered by hotter temperatures
US polar vortex brings Big Chill to forest pests
Study reveals how Eastern US forests came to be
The beetles: 89 million acres of abrupt climate change
Increasing drought now threatens nearly all US forests
Effects of drought on forests and rangelands in the USA
Tens of millions of trees in danger from California drought
Guidelines for regenerating Southern US pine beetle spots
Forest srvice scientists improve US forest carbon accounting
Caliifornia: wamer, drier climate forests altering forests statewide
Most flammable boreal forests in North America become more so
Conservationists clone massive redwood tree to fight climate change
Chronic 2000-04 drought , worst in 800 years, may be the new normal
US: central hardwood ecosystem vulnerability assessment and synthesis
Carbon stocks of trees killed by bark beetles and wildfire in the western US
Eradication of 'sudden oaka death' disease is no longer possible in California
Forests for water: exploring payments for watershed services in the US South
Dying trees in Southwest US set stage for erosion, water loss in Colorado River
Carbon storage and sequestration by trees in urban and community areas of the US
Mapping and modeling within-tree variation for loblolly pine pulp yield and lignin content
Science synthesis to support forest plan revision in the Sierra Nevada and Southern Cascades
Drunken trees and browning forests: why a Canadian government scientist is sounding the alarm
In the American West, a battle unfolds over bugs, climate change and the fate of an iconic species
Climate change and the impact of forest diseases on ecosystems in the Western United States and Canada
Russia & Central Asia:
Birthplace of the modern apple
Siberian larch forests are still linked to the ice age
Europe:
Swiss Forests
Siberian Forests
State of Europe's Forests 2011
The Swiss people and their forests
Reviving extinct Mediterranean forests
Joining the dots in EU forestry research
EU: preparing forests for climate change
New project maps out UK woodland biodiversity
Italy's olive trees are dying - can they be saved?
Developing a forest naturalness indicator for Europe
Significant humus loss in forests of the Bavarian Alps
Europe burns a contraversial 'renewable' energy source
Carbon implications of forest restitution in post-socialist Romania
Green corridors needed to reconnect Europe's fragmented forests
Valuing forest recreation in Europe: time and spatial considerations
Guidance to report on land use, land-use change and forestry emissions
How to live with mega-fires? Portugals's feral forests may hold the secret
Forest prooductivity in SW Europe is controlled by coupled NAO and AMO
Increasing canopy mortality affects the future demographic structure of Europe's forests
500 years of regional forest growth variability and links to climatic extreme events in Europe
Phenological shifts induced by climate change amplify drought for low alt. broad-leaved trees in Switzerland
Asia:
Mekong deforestation app
Greening Growth in Asia and the Pacific
Indonesia's rapid deforestation continues
Forests and Climate Change in the Near East Region
Drought makes Borneo's trees flower at the same time
Case study on tree crop diversity in China, Nepal and Pakistan
As climate change shrinks the Sundarbans, lives are washed away
Rain forests in Far East shaped by humans for the last 11,000 years
The Changes in China's Forests: An Analysis Using the Forest Identity
China's forest recovery shows hope for mitigating global climate change
Biodiversity protected areas in Indonesia ineffective in preventing deforestation
Super-charged tropical trees: Borneo's productive trees vitally important for global carbon cycling
Building an effective coalition to improve forest policy: lessons from the coastal Tripa, Sumatra, Indonesia
Africa:
Africa's Great Green Wall project
Big data reveals best carbon stocking locations
Africa's rainforests 'more resilient' to climate change
Super high-resolution carbon estimates for endangered Madagascar
Unsustainable fuelwood extraction from South African savannas
Linking forests, deforestation, and nutritional outcomes: a study in 9 African countries
Satellite-based primary forest degradation assessment in the DR of Congo, 2000-2010
National-scale estimation of gross forest above ground carbon loss: a case study of the DRC
Australia:
Dead tree detective
Gold grows on eucalyptus trees
Eucalyptus - a global tree for fuel and fiber
The Nullarbor Plain's ancient forests revealed
Gilding the gum tree - scientists strike gold in leaves
Australian species face 'imminent extinction' from from invasive pathogen
Entire hillsides of trees turned brown this summer. Is it the start of ecosystem collapse?