World Forest Day 2024: Indian forests are losing their ability to absorb carbon dioxide due to climate change

While increasing CO2 levels can initially boost photosynthesis, the warming sun acts like a cruel twist, hindering enzymes crucial for the process

Global warming: Forests, grasslands getting depleted of nitrogen; can impact animal growth

Low-nitrogen forests are more likely to have plants growing slowly with fewer leaves

Microbes across the globe can survive on air alone: Study

The phenomenon was found to be restricted to Antarctica till 3 years ago

Ozone pollution can damage wheat crop

Banaras Hindu University scientists found that most wheat cultivars developed after 2000 are more sensitive to damage due to ozone, a byproduct …

Gene that can boost photosynthesis identified in cyanobacteria

The gene, called activase-like cyanobacterial protein, will improve rubisco enzyme that is key to the food making process and increase …

How plants gauge the time of day

Light-sensitive proteins — called photoreceptors — measures time in plants and keeps them abreast of seasons, which is …

The mysterious existence of a leafless kauri stump, kept alive by its forest neighbours

Whatever happens on their journey from feeding themselves to being fed happens out of sight — likely below ground

Artificial ‘plants’ could fuel cars in future

The newly-created fuel can be stored for months or years and distributed through existing energy infrastructure

Huge implications for climate policy as new study confirms truth about land sink

It validates view that the prominent focus on the land sink is merely a smokescreen to mask countries’ hesitation at cutting down …

Fossilised fish bones from Africa are fertilising the Amazon forest

Study shows that dust containing phosphorous from fish fossils helps photosynthesis in the Amazon region