A report suggests that further degradation of the Amazon could turn one of the world’s most important carbon sinks into a ...

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 ...

The White House says President Joe Biden will become the first sitting president to visit the Amazon rainforest later this ...

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.

BRASILIA, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon fell 30.6% in the 12 months through July compared to the same ...

The Amazon region is a global hotspot of biodiversity and plays a key role in the climate system because of its ability to ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.