After three years of planning, five expeditions and a two-week trek through dense jungle, scientists have reached the tallest tree ever found in the Amazon rainforest, a towering specimen the size of ...

Sometimes even the largest natural wonders can remain hidden from human view for centuries. The Amazon is a dense place, full of life with new species of flora and fauna being discovered every other ...

For decades, researchers anticipated that climate change would stunt the Amazon’s tallest trees. But a gargantuan new study says the opposite: the giants of the rainforest are thriving, and even the ...

As wildfires raged last month in the Amazon, a team of researchers was busy tracking down the rainforest’s tallest trees. During a 10-day journey that included trekking up the Jari River in ...

Sometimes even the largest natural wonders can remain hidden from human view for centuries. The Amazon is a dense place, full of life with new species of flora and fauna being discovered every other ...

Intrepid Brazilian and British scientists say they have located the Amazon's tallest tree in northern Brazil, untouched by a spate of wildfires that have raged in the rainforest for weeks. The ...

Since 2019, researchers have been using lasers and making incursions into the depths of the Brazilian Amazon to identify giant trees that tower far above the rainforest canopy. Besides being a natural ...

Tobias Jackson receives funding from the Natural Environment Research Council. Sami Rifai receives funding from The Oxford Martin School, The Nature Conservancy & The Met Office. At 88m tall, it ...