"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 ...

Explore the vibrant heart of the Amazon Rainforest, home to more than 10% of the world's known species. This image captures a stunning toucan, known for its vivid beak and sharp calls echoing through ...

Wildfires have scorched millions of hectares of forest across South America so far this year. From Bolivia to Brazil, Peru to Argentina, the continent has been gripped by one of its worst fire seasons ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change.

Ecologists discovered the tallest tree in the Amazon – and it was nearly 50 percent taller than the previous record holder.

The average size of trees in the Amazon rainforest has been steadily increasing due to the rising levels of carbon dioxide ...

The life of Varî Vãti Marubo shows how much life has changed for the rainforest’s Indigenous tribes — and how much has stayed the same. Varî Vãti Marubo is likely one of the oldest people still living ...

Flying rivers, air currents carrying moisture from the Atlantic across South America, are being disrupted by deforestation, ...

“We knew that the total amount of carbon stored in the trees of intact Amazonian forests has increased. What this new study shows is that all sizes of tree have grown larger over the same period – the ...

The Amazon rainforest has lost an area about the size of Germany and France combined to deforestation in four decades, fueling drought and record wildfires across South America, experts said Monday.

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 ...