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 ...

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

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 ...

“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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate ...

05-30-2025 IMPACT If the Amazon rainforest dried out, here’s what would happen A decades-long project set out to simulate a future in which the changing climate could deplete the Amazon of rainfall.