Rainforests in these regions cover just 2% of Earth's total surface area and yet house half of the world's plant and animal species. Deforestation is the clearing of forests. Most deforestation ...

Brown earth ... soils are leached, but not heavily, so the aluminium and iron oxides are dispersed through the soil to give the overall brown colour. The original vegetation was deciduous forest ...

Known as “carbon sinks,” mangroves, peatlands and boreal forests have helped cool the Earth for thousands of years. By storing billions of tons of CO2 in their soil and vegetation, and locking ...

It involves a deep soil warming experiment at the University of California, Blodgett Forest Research Station, located in Georgetown, Calif., in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains.