Tree trunks in the Amazon are getting 3.3% thicker every decade as the plants absorb extra carbon dioxide, suggesting they are more resilient to global warming than previously thought.

Scientists found that climate change has been increasing the size of larger trees in the Amazon by about 3 percent per decade over the past three decades.

Rising carbon dioxide levels have boosted the growth of trees in the Amazon rainforest over the past few decades, but it is unclear if this trend will continue ...

Trees in the Peruvian Amazon are silently preserving the history of human activity, including the destructive impacts of gold ...

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 ...

Deep in Brazil's Amazon, scientists have built a "time machine" pumping carbon dioxide into the rainforest canopy to simulate atmospheric conditions predicted for the future to gauge how the biome ...

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 ...

Deep in the heart of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, scientists have created a groundbreaking “climate time machine” to simulate ...

Trees of all sizes across the Amazon rainforest are getting fatter due to climate change, a new study shows. Rising carbon dioxide (CO 2) concentrations in the atmosphere have created a more ...

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