Gold mining in the Amazon removes so much water from the ground that it's too hot and dry for seedlings to survive.

“Historically, deforestation was the main driver of land use change in the Amazon ... there is already an edge effect. And both deforestation and what are called “forest disturbances ...

According to a new study, 38 per cent of what's left of the Amazon has been degraded ... where the forest is removed altogether and a new land use, such as agriculture, is established in its ...

The residents of Maracaçumé, an impoverished town on the edge of the Amazon rainforest ... that has set aside land for a restoration project. Scientists say the entire rainforest ecosystem ...

The Amazon is so vast that it makes its own rain. Wet air from the Atlantic moves over land ... forest to be there in order to happen,” Boulton said. “If deforestation happens on the edge ...

The study investigates two different types of forest edge effects, exploring how areas of deforested and degraded land impact nearby trees ... deforestation along the “forestation fronts of the Amazon ...

The president of Brazil has been pursuing his big plans for the Amazon rainforest, even as parts ... Already, climate change, decades of logging, and land-clearing by intentionally set wildfires ...

"If we lose the water coming from the Amazon, it will push some cities in these areas over the edge ... forest. The nationalist regime incentivized Brazilians to move there and cultivate land ...

(Daniel Rocha/UC Davis) From jaguars and ocelots to anteaters and capybara, most land-based ... deer approaches the forest edge. It’s among the few mammals species not expected to be negatively ...