While the Paris Agreement set a goal to limit human-induced warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the ...

Amazon rainforest deforestation is reshaping the planet’s climate. It affects rainfall, raises global temperatures, and ...

You can read about the Amazon forest for years and still not come close to grasping how strange its wildlife really is. The ...

The Amazon forest adapted to long dry conditions with fewer big trees and slower carbon uptake. Younger trees grew, balancing ...

Brazilian prosecutors are seeking to annul a $180 million carbon offset scheme to support the conservation of the Amazon ...

Gold mining in the Amazon is devastating soil and water; combined with heat, water loss, and topsoil depletion, it's stalling ...

Fires could turn the Amazon rainforest into a desert as human activity and climate change threaten ‘lungs of the world’, ...

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

What these men had in common, according to those who knew them, is that they spoke out against drug cartels engaged in ...

Forests in the Peruvian Amazon aren't growing back after gold mining—not just because the soil is damaged by toxic metals, ...

A decades-long project set out to simulate a future in which the changing climate could deplete the Amazon of rainfall.