The Amazon rainforest is a biological jackpot, a climate regulator, and a living history book all at once. Scientists are ...

The Amazon is undergoing a radical transformation. New research suggests the rainforest is now entering a hypertropical state ...

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 type of climate regime is emerging in the Amazon rainforest as intense heat and drought continue to push the region beyond the tolerable limits for a tropical ecosystem. According to researchers ...

Scientists have used clues locked into tree rings to reveal major changes in the Amazon's rainfall cycle over the last 40 years: wet seasons are getting wetter and dry seasons drier. As a descendant ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many locals are cheering on the Brazilian government’s plans to rebuild a decrepit highway. Environmentalists are less keen ...

Gold mining in the Amazon removes so much water from the ground that it's too hot and dry for seedlings to survive. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Shortly after sunrise, the students of Barrio San Luis begin their school run. Around a dozen girls and boys, wearing backpacks and carrying notepads in hand, hop down the muddy river bank and into ...

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 ...