Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Figs are successful forest trees with some 900 separate species worldwide.

To the list of threats to tropical rainforests you can add a new one -- trees. It might seem that for a rainforest the more trees the merrier, but a new study warns that non-native trees invading a ...

Trees across the Amazon rainforest are growing larger in response to rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to a major new study. The research, published in the Nature Plants ...

Small trees that grow up in drought conditions could form the basis of more drought-resistant rainforests, new research suggests. Severe and long-lasting droughts are becoming more common in the ...

The trunks and branches of trees in Australia's tropical rainforests—also known as woody biomass—have become a net source of ...

The average size of trees in the Amazon rainforest has been steadily increasing as carbon dioxide levels have risen, meaning these larger trees play a more important role in determining whether the ...

Tropical trees in Australia's rainforests have been dying at double the previous rate since the 1980s, seemingly because of climate impacts, according to the findings of a long-term international ...

Thousands of native trees have been planted in a bid to create a new rainforest - in Devon. This winter has seen 2,500 native ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A local professor is taking his research outside the classroom and all the way to the tropical rainforest. A University of Louisville professor is studying the effects of ...

Small trees that grow up in drought conditions could form the basis of more drought-resistant rainforests, new research suggests. Small trees that grow up in drought conditions could form the basis of ...