With the aid of stable hydrogen isotopes in volcanic glass, an international research team, including Senckenberg geoscientist Prof. Dr. Andreas Mulch, has studied the uplift history of the Andes ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Due to climate change, the Amazon is experiencing longer dry seasons and droughts, which could edge it into a new climate known as the “hypertropics.

A fresh economic assessment highlights the enormous untapped pharmaceutical potential locked inside tropical forests, with ...

In Peru’s Amazon, Indigenous women are opening their communities to visitors and sharing traditions shaped by centuries of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Trees across the Amazon rainforest are growing larger in response to rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according ...

Trees of all sizes across the Amazon rainforest are getting fatter due to climate change, a new study shows. Rising carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations in the atmosphere have created a more ...

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 when ...

At least 441 new species of animals and plants have been discovered over the past four years in the vast, underexplored rainforest of the Amazon. At least 441 new species of animals and plants have ...

Deep in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, a group of delicate-looking herbs is quietly rewriting what botanists thought they knew ...

Amazon rainforest trees are getting bigger due to climate crisis, study finds - Scientists say the findings should not obscure the devastation wrought by deforestation ...