Nuno Carvalhais

This press release was kindly provided by the Universty of Utah

Forests are engaged in a delicate, deadly dance with climate change, sucking carbon dioxide out of the air with billions of leafy straws and hosting abundant biodiversity, as long as climate change, with its droughts, wildfires and ecosystem shifts, doesn’t kill them first. more

Rainforests are being lost through deforestation and land use. This reduces their resilience to climate change and makes them more vulnerable to droughts and wildfires. A new early warning system responds to the different conditions of rainforests.  more