Scientists have used clues locked into tree rings to reveal major changes in the Amazon's rainfall cycle over the last 40 years: wet seasons are getting wetter and dry seasons drier. Oxygen isotope ...

WASHINGTON—A single, huge, violent storm that swept across the whole Amazon forest in 2005 killed half a billion trees, a new study shows. While storms have long been recognized as a cause of Amazon ...

ANN ARBOR — A new genetic analysis has revealed that many Amazon tree species are likely to survive human-caused climate warming in the coming century, contrary to previous findings that temperature ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Scientists analyzed tree growth rings to investigate whether the Amazon Basin is indeed drying up, as shown by extreme droughts in 2023 and 2024.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. New research finds that when climate change and deforestation impacts are taken together, up to 58 percent of Amazon tree species richness could be ...

A single, huge, violent storm that swept across the whole Amazon forest in 2005 killed half a billion trees, a new study shows. A single, huge, violent storm that swept across the whole Amazon forest ...