Trees across the Amazon rainforest are growing larger in response to rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to a major new study. The research, published in the Nature Plants ...

The Amazon rainforest responded to the most severe drought ever recorded in the basin with an unexpected defense mechanism.

An ambitious project about to get underway intends to see how the trees will respond to the CO2 levels of the future ...

Trees are growing even bigger in the Amazon rainforest – despite climate change, reveals new research. Average tree size across the world’s largest tropical rainforest has increased by 3.2% every ...

Brazilian Amazon deforestation fell to its lowest level since 2017, according to Brazil’s Deforestation Alert System (SAD), ...

In a recent study published in New Phytologist, researchers at Michigan State University have uncovered how Amazon rainforest canopy trees manage the intense sunlight they absorb—revealing resilience ...

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Gold mining is literally sucking the Amazon rainforest dry, creating an environment where trees cannot grow, according to a new study. Researchers found that suction mining not only degrades the soil, ...