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

The Amazon rainforest may be able to survive long-term drought caused by climate change, but adjusting to a drier, warmer ...

The implications of drought on the Amazon, an area twice the size of India spanning several South American nations, extend globally. The rainforest stores a vast amount of carbon dioxide ...

The Amazon rainforest may be able to survive long-term drought caused by climate change, but adjusting to a drier, warmer ...

The Esecaflor project, a collaboration between Brazilian and British scientists, simulates drought in the Amazon rainforest to understand its impacts. This long-running experiment reveals significant ...

The Amazon rainforest may be able to survive long-term drought caused by climate change but could experience other "profound changes", researchers have warned. Some of the effects include the death of ...

In a pristine corner of the Amazon, scientists have spent more than two decades simulating drought to understand how the rainforest might respond to a drier future. Understanding how soil, roots and ...

As a result, Bolivia lost 14,800 square kilometres of forest in 2024, the second-most of any country, up 200% from 2023. It ...

Massive fires fuelled by climate change led global forest loss to smash records in 2024, according to a report issued on ...

Massive fires fuelled by climate change led global forest loss to smash records in 2024, according to a report issued on ...

The Amazon rainforest may be able to survive long-term drought caused by climate change, but adjusting to a drier, warmer world would exact a heavy toll, a study suggests. The findings show that ...