For decades, scientists have warned that the Amazon rainforest might one day reach a tipping point, transforming into a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Trees across the Amazon rainforest are growing larger in response to rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according ...

The "walking tree" of the Amazon, Socratea exorrhiza, is a myth fueled by its distinctive stilt roots. These roots adapt to ...

The giants of the Amazon are getting even bigger. A sweeping, new study has found the rainforest’s largest trees are not only holding their ground, but they’re thriving — growing, multiplying in ...

New research finds that even a few scattered trees on farmland can give a big boost to forest wildlife. On the edges of the ...

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 ...

WashU biologists helped analyze 40 years of data from 406 South American tropical forest plots, revealing subtle but ...

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 ...

The Amazon rainforest is slowly transitioning to a new, hotter climate with more frequent and intense droughts—conditions that haven't been seen on Earth for tens of millions of years. Dr. Magali ...

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 — ...

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 major drought and forest fires in the Amazon rainforest killed billions of trees and plants and turned one of the world's largest carbon sinks into one of its biggest polluters. A group of ...