Forests, which cover a third of Earth's land surface, are pivotal in carbon storage and the water cycle, though the full scope of their impact remains to be fully understood. In a new study published ...

Forests play a crucial role in the global water cycle. However, only a few studies have investigated post-damage radiative forcing of evapotranspiration and its underlying processes in forests.

China’s massive tree-planting drive has reshaped the country’s water cycle, increasing water loss through evapotranspiration ...

Western Forests, Snowpack and Wildfires Appear Trapped in a Vicious Climate Cycle A new study probes how extreme 2020 wildfires affected the water cycle in key mountain forests that store water in the ...

Trees consume water through evaporation and transpiration, so many believed that more trees meant less water for rivers, wells, and agriculture. But a major new synthesis of global evidence, published ...

China's extensive reforestation programmes have significantly increased forest cover across the country. However, this ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. If true, the theory explains how the interior forests of vast continents influence wind and the water cycles that supply whole nations, and could ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. An expanded understanding of forests’ role in moisture transport and heat regulation raises the stakes on the health of the Amazon Rainforest and ...

An archipelago in the state of Amazonas, made up of several islands, transforms its landscape every six months with the water ...

Extreme 2020 wildfires affected the water cycle in key mountain forests. The entire western U.S. is expected to see this kind of thing intensify in the years ahead. There will be pockets of relative ...

When Stephanie Kampf visited one of her wildfire test plots near Colorado’s Joe Wright Reservoir in June of 2021, the charred remains of what had been a cool, shady spruce and fir forest before the ...