Yes, NBC News, Trees in the Amazon Benefit from Higher Carbon Dioxide Levels
By
H. Sterling Burnett
September 30, 2025
NBC News is reporting on a new study which found that the Amazon rain forest is benefitting from increased carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere. The findings of the study, while informative, are unsurprising. Multiple studies have confirmed what agronomists, botanists, and farmers and greenhouse operators have long known, that higher CO2 makes plants grow faster, stronger, and more lushly, and as a result, recent increases in CO2 have is contributed to a general greening of the Earth.
The NBC New story, “Giant trees of the Amazon get taller as forests fatten up on carbon dioxide,” reports on a study published in the journal Nature Plants which found trees in the Amazon were growing larger and, when undisturbed by deforestation, increasing in number due to rising atmospheric CO2 levels.
“The giants of the Amazon are getting even bigger,” says NBC News. “A sweeping, new study has found the rainforest’s largest trees are not only holding their ground, but they’re thriving — growing, multiplying in number and continuing to play a major role in mitigating the impacts of climate change.”
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