Science news articles about 'trees in the rainforest'

... in the Amazon will survive even grim scenarios of deforestation and road-building, but rare trees could suffer extinction rates of up to 50 percent, predict scientists in the journal Proceedings of ...

A unique fungus that makes diesel compounds has been discovered living in trees in the rainforest, according to a paper published in the November issue of Microbiology. The fungus is potentially a ...

... gas include the oceans and the enormous trees of tropical rainforests. But temperate forests also play a role ... rich old-growth forests, or replanting trees on lands logged off previously for agriculture ...

... as the climate changes," Beaulieu explained. Does this mean that ecosystems dominated by trees — such as rainforests — will be more likely to disappear? Possibly. "If we look to the past for our ...