Tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest are being cleared and paved over to build a new four-lane highway for, of all things, the upcoming COP30 climate summit in Brazil.

Critical transitions in the Amazon forest system. Nature, 2024; 626 (7999): 555 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06970-0 ...

In the Amazon, the explosive growth resulting from cattle ranching has brought money and investment to livestock shows, the apex of which is the rodeo.

Destruction across the Amazon rainforest so far this year has slowed dramatically, down 55.8% from the same period a year ago in a major turnaround for the region vital to curbing climate change ...

It may seem absurd to consider collapse of the Amazon rainforest (65-million-years-old) which seems impossible, too far out, not warranting an article like this, but, sorry to say. it is already ...

Since 2010, Gatti has collected air samples over the Amazon in planes such as this one, to monitor how much CO 2 the forest absorbs. In 2021, she reported data from 590 flights that showed that ...

New plants and animals are discovered all the time A new species of plant or animal was discovered in the Amazon rainforest every three days between 1999 and 2009, according to a World Wildlife ...

The water level at a major river port in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest hit its lowest point in at least 121 years on Monday, as a historic drought upends the lives of hundreds of thousands of ...

Up to half of the Amazon rainforest could transform into grasslands or weakened ecosystems in the coming decades, a new study found, as climate change, deforestation and severe droughts like the ...