Deforestation is having a more devastating effect on the Amazon rainforest than earlier data suggested. While cutting down ...

Deforestation remains the top culprit paired with several destructive human activities behind Amazon's devastation.

The world’s climate math increasingly hinges on a surprisingly specific variable: whether the Amazon’s biggest trees are left ...

A forty-year study shows climate change is reshaping Amazon and Andean forests, with uneven tree gains and losses across ...

Trees of all sizes across the Amazon rainforest are getting fatter due to climate change, a new study shows. Rising carbon dioxide (CO 2) concentrations in the atmosphere have created a more ...

At the United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2015, countries around the world committed to striving towards net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by the middle of the 21st century. But achieving ...

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 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: While the Amazon rainforest is under immense ...

The Amazon rainforest is often called the “lungs of the Earth” and credited with producing some 20 percent of the world’s ...

After 44 years of observation, researchers have discovered that the Amazon is doing the opposite of what all the models predicted - ...

CAXIUANA NATIONAL FOREST – A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser and the temperature rises in places sunlight hits ...

MSU has a satellite uplink/LTN TV studio and Comrex line for radio interviews upon request. Scientists use satellite images of light given off by plants — called solar-induced fluorescence, or SIF — ...