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

Scientists reveal what would happen if the Amazon rainforest dried out - When trees die from drought, they release carbon, ...

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

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 ...

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 published in Nature Ecology and ...

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 Amazon rainforest ...

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

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 ...

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