Tree trunks in the Amazon are getting 3.3% thicker every decade as the plants absorb extra carbon dioxide, suggesting they ...

Trees across the Amazon rainforest are growing larger in response to rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, ...

A 30-year study found that Amazon rainforest trees are growing 3.2% larger each decade due to increased atmospheric carbon ...

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

For decades, researchers anticipated that climate change would stunt the Amazon’s tallest trees. But a gargantuan new study ...

Trees are growing even bigger in the Amazon rainforest - despite climate change, reveals new research. Average tree size ...

Researchers say their findings highlight just how important tropical rainforests are in our ongoing efforts to address man-made climate change.

We used to think that deforestation in the Amazon would dry out the local climate, but the effects may be even more extreme ...

Every time humans cut into the Amazon rainforest or burn or destroy parts of it, they're making people sick. It's an idea Indigenous people have lived by for thousands of years. Now a new study in the ...

WASHINGTON — Scientists have discovered prehistoric insects preserved in amber for the first time in South America, providing ...

Shippers stop at terminals thousands of miles from the country’s traditional ports. Fields once razed for cattle or left untouched now grow millions of tons of the country’s biggest export, soybeans.

Brazil’s Federal Police can trace whether gold came from an illegal mine in the Amazon rainforest, and investigators told ...