Deforestation is having a more devastating effect on the Amazon rainforest than earlier data suggested. While cutting down ...

Removing trees deprives the forest of portions of its canopy, which blocks the sun’s rays during the day and retains heat at ...

Climate change is quietly rearranging the Amazon and Andes—winners and losers are emerging, and the Northern Andes may hold ...

A multidisciplinary team of Brazilian researchers argues in an article published in the BMJ that health systems in the ...

A forty-year study shows climate change is reshaping Amazon and Andean forests, with uneven tree gains and losses across ...

Tree trunks in the Amazon are getting 3.3% thicker every decade as the plants absorb extra carbon dioxide, suggesting they are more resilient to global warming than previously thought. When you ...

Researchers caution that the Amazon rainforest could disappear in the next hundred years, due to the combined effects of climate change and deforestation, and a new model predicts how that could ...

Amazon.com investors at its annual meeting again rejected all outside shareholder resolutions, including three meant to address the online retail giant’s impact on climate change. Voters approved the ...

New research published in Nature Ecology and Evolution reveals significant recent shifts in tree diversity among the tropical ...

Global warming is no longer a distant forecast but a lived reality, with recent measurements showing the planet already ...