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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Spanning approximately 2.3 million square miles (6 million square kilometers) across eight South American countries, the Amazon Rainforest is the world’s largest tropical forest. This vast ...

In the UK we get a lot of rain. But this habitat gets so much rain that they named it a rainforest. This is the Amazon rainforest, the largest rainforest on Earth. Oh, it's really raining and very ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.