When you take the name of the Amazon Rainforest, it almost seems like an enigma. From snakes that go beyond three storey ...

Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon — home to the largest swath of this rainforest — dropped 30.6% compared to the previous year, the lowest level of destruction in nine years.

Using a computer model, the team tested how the Amazon rainforest would respond to the combined effects of climate change and ...

The Amazon rainforest could turn into the driest savanna in the next hundred years due to the combined effects of natural and ...

Nearly 40% of the areas of the Amazon rainforest most critical to curbing climate change have not been granted special government protection, as either nature or indigenous reserves, according to ...

The Amazon could be racing closer to a calamitous tipping point that would transform the lush rainforest into a drier savanna within a century, researchers warn. This massive shift could be ...

The Amazon rainforest staggered through another difficult year in 2024. A second year of record drought contributed to wildfires that worsened deforestation across the massive forest, which spans ...

“When the forest is reduced, this weakens this process, causing the global climate to find a new equilibrium.” The Amazon River and the Amazon forest in Yurua, Ucayali, in Peru in June 2021.