Scientists realized that the rain-making services of tropical forests have long been taken for granted, so they stepped ...

The Brazilian Amazon is on pace to see forest clearing hit a record low this year, government figures show. Officials credit ...

Deforestation in the Amazon is making the region hotter and drier, with less rainfall as the forest loses its ability to ...

Every year, tropical forests release countless litres of water into the atmosphere, generating rain. New research has ...

The biotic pump theory was developed by scientists Anastassia Makarieva and the late Victor Gorshkov, who were Russian theoretical physicists working for the Theoretical Physics Division of the ...

A new study reveals that the Brazilian Amazon produces rainfall worth about $20 billion per year to regional agriculture.

The Amazon, often called the "lungs of the planet," is the world's largest tropical forest, playing a crucial role in the global climate system due to its vast carbon storage. While it is typically ...

During this term, Brazil’s president has reduced deforestation but he is government is pushing projects that would open up the Amazon to extractivism. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s president, ...

Tropical forests help to generate vast amounts of rainfall each year, adding weight to arguments for protecting them as water and climate pressures increase, say researchers. A new study led by the ...