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The Amazon's biggest trees store disproportionately more carbon than smaller trees do, new study finds. But in the Peruvian Amazon, large trees are currently prioritized for harvest.

The Amazon Rainforest—a vast green expanse across nine countries, covering over six million square kilometers. From above, it ...

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 the ground. This is what ...

Scientists have used clues locked into tree rings to reveal major changes in the Amazon's rainfall cycle over the last 40 years: wet seasons are getting wetter and dry seasons drier. As a descendant ...

In every episode of The Americas’ epic 10-part adventure through the natural world, we visit another part of Earth’s great ...

Trees are growing even bigger in the Amazon rainforest - despite climate change, reveals new research. Average tree size across the world’s largest tropical rainforest has increased by 3.2% every ...

Preserving the Amazonian rainforest keeps communities safe from the health risks of wildfires and deforestation, research has found ...

Tens of thousands of trees in the heart of the Amazon rainforest have been wiped out to prepare for a global summit on saving the environment. Over the weekend, President Donald Trump slammed the ...

A major drought and forest fires in the Amazon rainforest killed billions of trees and plants and turned one of the world's largest carbon sinks into one of its biggest polluters. A group of ...