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 ...

BELEM, Brazil (AP) — The Amazon rainforest is a massive area, twice the size of India and sprawling across eight countries and one territory. It’s a crucial carbon sink for the climate, has ...

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 ...

Researchers say that a continually warming world could change the climate in historically rainy parts of the world and their ...

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.

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.

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 ...

WHAT ARE THE MAIN ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS TO THE AMAZON BIOME? FILE - A ferry boat transports logs cut from the Amazon rainforest in Guama river in Belem, northern state of Para, Brazil, Jan. 14, 2023.