The Transpiration Engine Powers Regional Rainfall Rainforest trees function as biological water pumps, drawing moisture from ...

The ability of rainforests to store carbon can decrease in pace with climate change. This is due to photosynthesis rates in the leaves of rainforest species falling at higher temperatures and the ...

The average size of trees in the Amazon rainforest has been steadily increasing as carbon dioxide levels have risen, meaning these larger trees play a more important role in determining whether the ...

Brazil allegedly chopped down trees in the Amazon rainforest to build a highway to the COP30 climate conference. As DW can show, the claim is very misleading.

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 ...

The Honduran government is emphasizing clean energy and the environment when addressing poverty in the country. It is thus moving to protect its ecosystem and rainforest — a proposition that ...

Bole of a very large individual of Tessmannia princeps, showing the numerous buttresses. Credit: photo by Andrea Bianchi, from Phytotaxa (2025). DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.694.2.1 A team of botanists ...

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