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 ...

Trees of all sizes across the Amazon rainforest are getting fatter due to climate change, a new study shows. Rising carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations in the atmosphere have created a more ...

Average tree size across the Amazon has increased by 3.2% every decade consistent with a response to rising carbon dioxide levels, a new study suggests. The new research published today (25 Sep) in ...

A 15-year study reveals how human-caused fires and deforestation are turning the Amazon rainforest into a major source of ...

An aerial view of the Amazon rainforest near Manaus, Brazil “Amazon 9” by Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT under CC BY-SA 2.00 The already large trees of the Amazon rainforest are getting ...

Ozone pollution caused by Amazon wildfires is significantly reducing the rainforest's ability to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, new research reveals. Ground-level ozone is formed when ...

The Amazon is the world's largest tropical forest, home to unmatched biodiversity and one of the planet's longest rivers. Besides the Amazon River, the Amazon rainforest also features "flying rivers:" ...

Deep in the Amazon rainforest, something unexpected is happening. While scientists have spent decades warning about climate change threatening the world’s largest tropical forest, trees across the ...

Scientists use satellite images of light given off by plants — called solar-induced fluorescence, or SIF — to check how healthy the Amazon forest is. SIF is often used to estimate how much ...

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 ...

A study out of the UK adds a new wrinkle to how climate change will affect the Amazon rainforest: It turns out that trees there are getting bigger. Researchers at the University of Cambridge and the ...

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 ...