Deforestation is having a more devastating effect on the Amazon rainforest than earlier data suggested. While cutting down ...

Nitrogen shortage limits young tropical forest growth, slowing carbon capture that could help fight climate change.

Orange, Calif. — Sept. 16, 2025 — A new study led by the U.S. Forest Service, with Chapman University as a key senior collaborator, published in Nature Communications, suggests the Earth’s own ...

The famously verdant Amazon rainforest is in danger of transforming into a dry savannah as various environmental indicators, such as deforestation and climate change, are pushing the ecosystem to a ...

Removing trees deprives the forest of portions of its canopy, which blocks the sun’s rays during the day and retains heat at ...

Researchers caution that the Amazon rainforest could disappear in the next hundred years, due to the combined effects of climate change and deforestation, and a new model predicts how that could ...

Amazon is facing a climate that has not been experienced in millions of years, according to a study published in the journal Nature. Referred to as "hypertropical," the climate exhibits droughts that ...

Researchers at Northern Arizona University and the Smithsonian found an unconventional method to understand how rainforests will survive with climate change—making tea with living leaves at the top of ...

Climate change is turbocharging heatwaves, wildfires, floods and tropical storms, but how deadly have extreme weather events ...

Of the 11,000-plus species of bird in the world (or 18,000-plus, depending on who you ask), most live in the tropics. In fact, around 50 percent of all known species live in just the Amazon and ...