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

Rainforest seedlings are more likely to survive in natural forests than in places where logging has happened -- even if tree restoration projects have taken place, new research shows. Rainforest ...

Trees of all sizes across the Amazon rainforest are getting fatter due to climate change, a new study shows. Rising carbon ...

Amazon rainforest trees are getting bigger due to climate crisis, study finds - Scientists say the findings should not ...

Rising carbon dioxide levels have boosted the growth of trees in the Amazon rainforest over the past few decades, but it is ...

The Choco region in northwest Ecuador is hosting a groundbreaking experiment to try and help its rainforests recover from rampant deforestation. A multinational team is planting small “tree islands" ...

The growth of the trees, the researchers warned, is "increasingly critical for the trajectory of the net carbon balance" in the Amazon region.

Before a discovery in a Panamanian rainforest, “it seemed impossible that lightning could be a good thing for the trees,” a scientist said. By Rebecca Dzombak When lightning strikes a tree in the ...

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 ...