Deep in the Amazon rainforest, armed tribesmen battle illegal loggers for their future — and ours The "Guardians of the Forest" have taken up arms against the "invaders." ...

Tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest are being cleared and paved over to build a new four-lane highway for, of all things, the upcoming COP30 climate summit in Brazil.

An eight-mile stretch of Amazon rainforest is being cleared to make space for a new four-lane highway that's being built in Brazil to ferry delegates to a climate conference later this year.

Climate Thousands of acres of Amazon rainforest cleared for climate summit highway in Brazil The UN Climate Change Conference, or COP30, will be held in Belém, Brazil in November ...

Fires could turn the Amazon rainforest into a desert as human activity and climate change threaten ‘lungs of the world’, according to scientsits. It’s been a bad year for the Amazon, which ...

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.

Fires raged across the Amazon rainforest in 2024, annihilating more than 4.6 million hectares of primary tropical forest—the most biodiverse and carbon-dense type of forest on Earth. That loss ...

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 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 ...