The Amazon’s worst fire season in decades is turning the rainforest into a massive carbon emitter.

A new LMU study estimates that land use changes in conjunction with climate change could lead to the loss of up to 38% of the ...

The Amazon is changing faster than many researchers once thought possible, and the signals are no longer subtle. From record ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rain forest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change. A ...

Some of the world's largest soybean traders are preparing to break their agreement to curb deforestation of the Amazon ...

Global warming and deforestation are combining to dry out rain forests, which could start an unstoppable cycle that turns them to grasslands. The Amazon rain forest, like other tropical forests, ...

ALTAMIRA, Brazil – If much of the Amazon forest is to wither away, this is the town where that end was foretold. During its campaign to develop the region, Brazil’s former military dictatorship chose ...

The river loops low past its bleached-white banks, where caimans bask in the fierce morning sun and stranded houseboats tilt precariously. Nearby sits a beached barge with its load of eight trucks and ...

Leading scientists project that if an additional 3-8% of rainforest cover is lost in the Amazon, it may overshoot a forest-to-degraded-savanna tipping point. That shift could mean mega-drought, forest ...

Forest degradation — due to human and environmental causes — was responsible for more carbon loss than deforestation between 2010 and 2019, researchers reported at the most recent American Geophysical ...