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

Without trees, the Amazon faces harsher extremes. New modeling reveals more heat, violent storms, and stronger winds.

Local deforestation reduces rainfall in the Amazon rainforest wheres global climate change is the main factor for the ...

Scientists warn that “flying rivers” — invisible streams of moisture that carry rain from the Atlantic Ocean westward across ...

A study found that the average size of trees in the Amazon was increasing steadily, likely the result of their height ...

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

"We're not seeing signs of them dying off," one of the study's lead authors told NBC News. "They are increasing in size and ...

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 ...