“We can’t simply plant new trees and expect them to confer anything like the kinds of carbon or biodiversity benefits that ...

Trees of all sizes across the Amazon rainforest are getting fatter due to climate change ... One of these outcomes, known as ...

A team of nearly 100 researchers found the average tree size in the massive rainforest has increased by more than 3 percent ...

Rising carbon dioxide levels have boosted the growth of trees in the Amazon rainforest over the past few decades, but it is ...

The Amazon rainforest is one of the world's greatest natural resources, both in terms of the resources it contains and its role in producing oxygen and cleaning the world's air. The forest stores up ...

Ecologists discovered the tallest tree in the Amazon – and it was nearly 50 percent taller than the previous record holder.

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Hosts of NPR's science podcast discuss new findings about long-distance fly migration, an unexpected impact of emissions in the Amazon, and fish noises.

Stretching across 2.6 million square miles and eight countries and filled with more than 3 million species of plants and animals, the Amazon rainforest is a wild and wonderful place. There are ...