In a pristine corner of the Amazon, Brazilian and British scientists have spent more than two decades simulating drought to ...

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’, ...

The Amazon forest adapted to long dry conditions with fewer big trees and slower carbon uptake. Younger trees grew, balancing ...

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 ...

Gold mining in the Amazon is devastating soil and water; combined with heat, water loss, and topsoil depletion, it's stalling ...

The Amazon’s dry season, made drier by climate change, cuts off river access to hospitals for many rural people – but women with traditional skills are closer to hand ...

Brazilian federal prosecutors are seeking to cancel a \$180 million carbon credit deal between the state of Pará and the LEAF ...

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 ...

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 ...