Heating alone won’t drive soil microbes to release more carbon dioxide — they need added carbon and nutrients to thrive. This finding challenges assumptions about how climate warming influences soil ...

Tropical forests exchange more CO2 with the atmosphere than any other terrestrial biome, meaning that even a relatively small shift in the balance of carbon uptake and release there could have a big ...

The country already operates one of the world’s largest anti-desertification programmes, including the massive “Great Green Wall” tree-planting initiative. But traditional methods — planting trees, ...