The rainforest has many layers There are thousands of tree species in the Amazon rainforest, many of which grow to between 80 and 100 feet tall, developing huge networks of branches that make up the ...

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Blackwater lake, rainforest, and the whitewater river in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay. You’ve been working in the conservation realm for a long time.

The Amazon — nearly four times the size of Alaska — is a vast sink for storing carbon dioxide and a key element of any plan to restrain climate change. Any increase in deforestation there ...

Massive stretch of Amazon rainforest destroyed for upcoming COP30 climate summit’s 4-lane highway: ‘This is a loss’ By Chris Nesi Published March 12, 2025, 1:27 p.m. ET ...

Understanding how drought can affect the Amazon, an area twice the size of India that crosses into several South American nations, has implications far beyond the region. The rainforest stores a ...

Brazil’s Amazon rainforest is in flames, burning at the highest rate since 2013, when that nation’s space research center first began tracking fires there. Here’s what we know.

Amazon deforestation is 75% below its 2004 high. Fires are up just 7% higher than their 10-year average. And fires in the forest itself aren't increasing. Here's why everyone got it wrong.

Why the Amazon doesn’t really produce 20% of the world’s oxygen Of the many important reasons to worry about the thousands of fires raging in the world’s largest rainforest, oxygen supply is ...

The rainforest has never been closer to what scientists predict would be a global calamity. Because it stores an estimated 123 billion tons of carbon, the Amazon is seen as vital to forestalling ...

What would happen if the Amazon rainforest dried out? This decades-long experiment has some answers Launched in 2000 by Brazilian and British scientists, Esecaflor, is the longest-running project ...