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

Deforestation remains the top culprit paired with several destructive human activities behind Amazon's devastation.

The world’s climate math increasingly hinges on a surprisingly specific variable: whether the Amazon’s biggest trees are left ...

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

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 ...

At the United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2015, countries around the world committed to striving towards net-zero ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: While the Amazon rainforest is under immense ...

The Amazon rainforest is often called the “lungs of the Earth” and credited with producing some 20 percent of the world’s ...

The Amazon rainforest was one of the biggest natural wonders of the world. It was one of the last remaining natural fronts that was not extensively disturbed by human activities. However, recent ...

After 44 years of observation, researchers have discovered that the Amazon is doing the opposite of what all the models predicted - ...

MSU has a satellite uplink/LTN TV studio and Comrex line for radio interviews upon request. Scientists use satellite images of light given off by plants — called solar-induced fluorescence, or SIF — ...

Did you know that forests cover almost one-third of all land on Earth? These large green areas are the lungs of our planet, but they aren't identical. From the chilly, needle-leaf Boreal forests in ...