While the loss of the rainforest would be terrible for many reasons locally, it would also have a big impact on the whole ...

Australian tropical rainforest trees have become the first in the world to switch from being a carbon sink to an emissions ...

Trees of all sizes across the Amazon rainforest are getting fatter due to climate change, a new study shows. Rising carbon dioxide (CO 2) concentrations in the atmosphere have created a more ...

A new study led by the U.S. Forest Service, with Chapman University as a key senior collaborator, published in Nature Communications, suggests Earth's own tropical soils may contribute to climate ...

Humanity has reached the first Earth system tipping point, the widespread death of warm-water coral reefs, marking 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. At such a critical moment in US history, we need ...

A team of nearly 100 researchers found the average tree size in the massive rainforest has increased by more than 3 percent ...