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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Amazon Rainforest Day, first celebrated in 2008, aims to raise awareness about the importance of Earth’s largest rainforest. There is a place where the Amazon meets the Andes, where forests climb the ...

The Amazon’s constant rainfall and seasonal flooding wash nutrients out of the soil year‑round. Among the most critical nutrients lost is phosphorus, which plants need to grow. Saharan dust delivers ...

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