New research finds that forest-dwelling elephants browse on trees with low wood density ... See All Key Ideas Previous studies have shown that Africa’s tropical forests store more carbon ...

The study of over one million trees across 1,568 locations, published in Nature, found that just 2.2% of tree species make up 50% of the total number of trees in tropical forests across Africa ...

In South Africa’s Limpopo province ... A similar, climate-related phenomenon is claiming tropical trees in the Costa Rican cloud forest, which appear to be succumbing to rising temperatures ...

The Jacaranda trees are indigenous to South America with their history in South Africa being traced back ... expectancy of up to 200 years. These exotic Jacarandas trees are a big part of ...

Torkhov – stock.adobe.com Lightning is largely a cause of tree mortality in tropical forests ... expanding to other forests in Africa and Southeast Asia to see if there are any other species ...

One of the most famous African savannas is Serengeti ... grasslands because they support scattered tree growth (hence the word "tropical"), creating a mix of open grassland and tree cover.

Africa needs to monetize its trees to help slow global warming, the head of AFC Capital Partners said. The continent is home to the Congo Basin tropical forest, second in size only to the Amazon ...

Owing to a fast-growing population whose demands on the land for agriculture and development have been growing exponentially, the quest for more fast-growing and commercially viable trees has seen a ...

Beyond the vast tropical forests spread across the middle of the continent, African landscapes range from dry grasslands with a few trees to savannahs with scattered trees to more humid areas with ...

There is a lot of scope for planting trees on farms in south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. But a lot of these ... These plantations largely comprise exotic and fast-growing trees like eucalyptus ...

The researchers found strikingly similar patterns in the proportion of tree species that are common, at close to 2.2%, despite the tropical forests of the Amazon, Africa and Southeast Asia each ...