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

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 the ground. This is what ...

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

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 ...

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

For decades, researchers anticipated that climate change would stunt the Amazon’s tallest trees. But a gargantuan new study says the opposite: the giants of the rainforest are thriving, and even the ...

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 — ...