While the loss of the rainforest would be terrible for many reasons locally, it would also have a big impact on the whole ...

Climate skeptics are targeting new research on the Amazon to downplay global warming's impact on rainforests as Brazil ...

CAXIUANA NATIONAL FOREST, Brazil (AP) — A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser and the temperature rises in places ...

Deforestation in the Amazon has been identified as the main driver of declining rainfall, responsible for nearly three-quarters of the drop in dry-season precipitation since the mid-1980s. Between ...

The famously verdant Amazon rainforest is in danger of transforming into a dry savannah as various environmental indicators, such as deforestation and climate change, are pushing the ecosystem to a ...

Trees across the Amazon rainforest are growing larger in response to rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to a major new study. The research, published in the Nature Plants ...

The Amazon rainforest experienced its worst fire season in over two decades in 2024, with devastating consequences for both the environment and the global climate ...

Every time humans cut into the Amazon rainforest or burn or destroy parts of it, they’re making people sick. It’s an idea Indigenous people have lived by for thousands of years. Now a new study in the ...