Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 30-year study shows Amazon trees are growing larger, strengthening the forest’s carbon sink role. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) For ...

Since 2019, researchers have been using lasers and making incursions into the depths of the Brazilian Amazon to identify giant trees that tower far above the rainforest canopy. Besides being a natural ...

The Amazon’s new record-breaking tree. Credit: Tobias Jackson, Author provided We didn't just stumble upon these trees while strolling in the forest. Between 2016 and 2018, Brazil's National Institute ...

Sometimes even the largest natural wonders can remain hidden from human view for centuries. The Amazon is a dense place, full of life with new species of flora and fauna being discovered every other ...

Illegal gold miners are now operating very close to the second-tallest tree in the Amazon Rainforest, Mongabay’s Fernanda Wenzel reported in April. Six giant trees, including a red angelim (Dinizia ...

For decades, researchers anticipated that climate change would stunt the Amazon’s tallest trees. But a gargantuan new study says the opposite: the giants of the rainforest are thriving, and even the ...