Extreme drought across Brazil’s Amazon worsens local fears for the future Historically low water levels have affected hundreds of thousands of people and wildlife across Brazil’s Amazon and ...

Every hectare of the Amazon that is destroyed pushes the rainforest closer to collapse. And if we lose the Amazon, we lose the fight against the climate crisis. We can all be part of the solution.

Millions of hectares of forest are burning in the Amazon and the homes of indigenous communities and vulnerable rainforest species are being destroyed. Fires in this precious landscape have burned an ...

CARAJÁS, Brazil — Jefferson Sousa could have been eking out a living at the expense of the Amazon forest, working on a cattle ranch like his father. “It was all I knew, it was what kept our ...

AN ANCIENT city that was abandoned in the 18th century has finally been unearthed deep inside the Amazon rainforest. Located in the modern Brazilian state of Rondônia, the Portuguese settlement ...

An international team has now investigated how a change in Atlantic circulation would impact the Amazon Rain Forest. The Earth's climate system is highly complex and its components, which include ...

An archaeologist working in South America says he has not seen a blue sky for months - because vast swathes of the Amazon rainforest have been on fire since August. Researchers have, in the past ...

BRASILIA, Oct 18 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to visit the Amazon rainforest and meet Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva before they attend the G20 summit in Rio de ...

The Amazon rainforest could be reaching an irreversible tipping point beyond which it will decline until "we're just left with scrub," conservationists have warned. WWF's biennial Living Planet ...

That’s five times larger than the forest fires of 2019 when, under far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, rampant destruction of the Amazon made headlines worldwide. The estimate comes from the ...