Unlike humans, plants and fungi can't sign contracts. Without courts to enforce binding agreements, a primary way to ensure ...

Researchers caution that the Amazon rainforest could disappear in the next hundred years, due to the combined effects of ...

A major study shows Amazon and Andes forests are failing to adapt to climate change, raising alarms for biodiversity and ...

A single tree in the Amazon can pump 500 liters of water into the atmosphere each day. Winds whisk the moisture hundreds of kilometers deeper into the forest, where it rains on more trees.

The famously verdant Amazon Rainforest can easily transform into a dry savannah in the future because various environmental ...

A new study published today by Wake Forest University and an international team of scientists reveals that tree communities ...

River depth can fluctuate wildly in the Peruvian Amazon. But what was out of the ordinary—and had our local crew perplexed—was the timing, in late November. That was at least a month after the ...

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 ...

The rainforest in the Amazon basin transpires vast amounts of gaseous isoprene. Until now, it was assumed that this molecule is not transported far up into the atmosphere, as it rapidly declines ...