The Amazon rainforest currently has a few days or weeks of hot drought conditions per year, but researchers say this could increase to 150 days per year by 2100.

Amazon researcher Bernardo Flores on how El Niño could help drive Earth's largest tropical rainforest past a globe-altering ...

Satellite images can be used to estimate how much carbon forests store as aboveground biomass (AGB) and how biomass varies in different forests. In a study published in the journal Nature, a team of ...

For Leah the value of the UK's rainforests goes way beyond their importance as a rare habitat. They are a form of natural infrastructure that can help the UK become more resilient to a changing ...

South American tropical forests, including the Amazon rainforest, may lose their ability to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere due to increased climate extremes, scientists warn. The ...

Tropical forests draw down and store large quantities of CO₂ from the atmosphere. The Amazon rainforest in South America, for example, stores approximately 123 billion tonnes of carbon – more than is ...