At the United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2015, countries around the world committed to striving towards net-zero ...
A forty-year study shows climate change is reshaping Amazon and Andean forests, with uneven tree gains and losses across ...
The Amazon rainforest is often called the “lungs of the Earth” and credited with producing some 20 percent of the world’s ...
As the world is gathering in Brazil at the world’s biggest climate summit, the trees in the Amazon are telling a story themselves. The trees are getting bigger, almost as if they’re on steroids. And, ...
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 ...
Removing trees deprives the forest of portions of its canopy, which blocks the sun’s rays during the day and retains heat at ...
"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 ...
After 44 years of observation, researchers have discovered that the Amazon is doing the opposite of what all the models predicted - ...
CAXIUANA NATIONAL FOREST – A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser and the temperature rises in places sunlight hits ...
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 — ...
New research published in Nature Ecology and Evolution reveals significant recent shifts in tree diversity among the tropical forests of the Andes and Amazon, driven by global change.