Now, drawing on six years of fieldwork in rainforest trees, perching in their crowns and watching the comings and goings of ants, researchers can report that the leafy giants also follow this rule.

"Trees in tropical rainforests play an important role in the water balance of the planet. Every tree is like a fountain, drawing water up from the soil and putting it out into the atmosphere.

Strangler fig tree in the Amazon. Related articles. Amazon deforestation slows in Brazil for 2005 12/04/2005 . Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest fell 37% for the 2004-2004 year according to ...

Trees get overheated in a warmer rainforest Date: September 27, 2022 Source: University of Gothenburg Summary: The ability of rainforests to store carbon can decrease in pace with climate change.

We drilled into more than 70 rainforest trees across two study sites, targeting two species that can live for more than 500 years: Myrtle Beech (Nothofagus cunninghami) ...

Historically, Australia's lush Big Scrub Rainforest flourished across 185,000 acres (75,000 hectares) of eastern Australia.But over the centuries, human encroachment and wildfires have shrunk it ...