Researchers have found that forest soils need several decades to recover from bushfires and logging -- much longer than previously thought. A landmark study from The Australian National University ...

Australian National University’s Elle Bowd led a research team that collected 729 soil cores from 81 sites in the mountain ash forests of southeast Australia. The sampling sites had been subjected to ...

Elle Bowd has received funding from the Paddy Pallin Foundation, Centre of Biodiversity Analysis, the Ecological Society of Australia and the Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment fund. David ...

HANOVER, N.H. - Logging doesn't immediately jettison carbon stored in a forest's mineral soils into the atmosphere but triggers a gradual release that may contribute to climate change over decades, a ...

It will take up to eight decades, not 10 to 15 years, for forest soil damaged by logging or wildfires to recover, revealed a new study. A team of scientists investigated the soil of the Ash Mountain ...

Logging in temperate zones may release more greenhouse gases than previously thought by destabilizing carbon stored in forest soils, argues a new paper published in the journal Global Change ...

Logging around the Basin Creek Reservoir will not seriously damage the soils, said Forest Service officials. The agency has completed a draft study on soils and is preparing a final version as ...

Jan. 23 (UPI) --Many forest species can rebound relatively quickly in the wake of wildfire. Some animals even thrive among the newly scorched environs. But according to new research, forest soil takes ...