By Rhett Ayers Butler [( Fires raged across the Amazon rainforest, annihilating more than 4.6 million hectares of primary ...

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

CAXIUANA NATIONAL FOREST, Brazil (AP) — A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen ...

Tropical deforestation hit a new high in 2024, fueled by Amazon wildfires and expanding agriculture. Scientists warn the ...

Satellite imagery shows that the loss of tropical forests over the past year has doubled compared to 2023, with half of it ...

Massive fires fueled by climate change led global forest loss to smash records in 2024, according to a new report.

Whether the world's largest tropical forest can survive ... not be the biggest environmental threat to the Amazon basin. Clear-cutting the forest for cattle, bootleg timber operations and land ...

It could help answer a consequential question of climate change science: Will intact tropical forest continue soaking up far more carbon dioxide than it releases? Intact regions of the Amazon are ...

Tropical forests provide a buffer against climate change, but disappeared faster than ever recorded last year.

Spanning approximately 2.3 million square miles (6 million square kilometers) across eight South American countries, the Amazon Rainforest is the world’s largest tropical forest. This vast ...

Rainforests conjure images of tropical climates and abundant varieties of colorful plants and animals, like the Amazon, but ...

And, as the largest tropical forest on Earth, the Amazon plays a crucial role in regulating climate. Previous studies have modeled the effects of deforestation on precipitation, but most used ...