The findings suggest that the mature Amazon rainforest has, so far, avoided the worst impacts of climate change, although the authors caution that climate changes is expected to increase the incidence ...

In 2022, a small group of researchers came up with a bright idea: What if we were to install a network of lamps above tropical forests, flooding them with light at night in order to boost ...

Ali Zaidi, former U.S. National Climate Advisor and head of the White House Climate Policy Office for the Biden administration, spoke at Northwestern on Tuesday about “reimagining climate policy,” ...

Scientists warn that “flying rivers” — invisible streams of moisture that carry rain from the Atlantic Ocean westward across the Amazon — are weakening as deforestation and climate change advance.

A team of nearly 100 researchers found the average tree size in the massive rainforest has increased by more than 3 percent per decade since the 1970s ...

The Amazon rainforest, known as the “lungs of the Earth,” absorbs carbon dioxide and releases oxygen. Surprisingly, instead of weakening from climate change, many trees are getting larger. Over recent ...

Scientists found that climate change has been increasing the size of larger trees in the Amazon by about 3 percent per decade over the past three decades.

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 ...

A new study has found the rainforest’s largest trees are thriving, and continue to play a major role in mitigating the impacts of climate change.

Less than two months before the COP30 UN climate conference in Brazil, only 40 percent of nations have booked accommodation in the Amazon city of Belem, where prices have soared, organizers said ...

A new study led by the U.S. Forest Service, with Chapman University as a key senior collaborator, published in Nature Communications, suggests Earth's own tropical soils may contribute to climate ...