Scientists warn that “flying rivers” — invisible streams of moisture that carry rain from the Atlantic Ocean westward across ...

Local deforestation reduces rainfall in the Amazon rainforest wheres global climate change is the main factor for the ...

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

A view from the Atto research tower of the Amazon rainforest on a clear day and through thick smoke in 2023, when an ...

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

Tree trunks in the Amazon are getting 3.3% thicker every decade as the plants absorb extra carbon dioxide, suggesting they ...

In Brazil’s southern Amazonian region, where the notorious “arc of deforestation” has been expanding since the 1970s, forest loss is reshaping the region’s atmospheric water cycle. As the Amazon ...

Trees across the Amazon rainforest are growing larger in response to rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, ...

"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 ...

Meanwhile, Ecuador supplies a large share of our imported crude, and the toll on the Amazon is staggering. Since the 1970s, oil development in Ecuador has wiped out more than 1.6 million acres of ...

The Amazon rainforest is like nowhere else on the planet. But so is the Lacandón Jungle, and it's right here in Mexico!