Local patrols in the Amazon are leading a conservation success story, protecting forests and wildlife against growing threats ...

"We're not seeing signs of them dying off," one of the study's lead authors told NBC News. "They are increasing in size and ...

Tree trunks in the Amazon are getting 3.3% thicker every decade as the plants absorb extra carbon dioxide, suggesting they ...

A team of nearly 100 researchers found the average tree size in the massive rainforest has increased by more than 3 percent ...

In Brazil’s southern Amazonian region, where the notorious “arc of deforestation” has been expanding since the 1970s, forest loss is reshaping the region’s atmospheric water cycle. As the Amazon ...

Ecologists discovered the tallest tree in the Amazon – and it was nearly 50 percent taller than the previous record holder.

There’s a reason they warned you never to travel alone in the Amazon. As you go deeper into the rainforest, you start to feel ...

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 ...

This marks the first time researchers have identified ancient beetles, flies, ants and wasps in fossilized tree resin in South America, said Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente, a paleoentomologist at the ...