Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is doing far more than clearing trees: it’s directly shrinking the region’s rain supply ...

From jaguars and ocelots to anteaters and capybara, most land-based mammals living in the Brazilian Amazon are threatened by climate change and the projected savannization of the region. That’s ...

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is responsible for approximately 74.5% of the reduction in rainfall and 16.5% of the ...

By Rhett Ayers Butler [( For decades the world’s largest rainforest has been getting drier. A new study published in Nature ...

The Amazon rainforest is often called the lungs of the planet because its trees help to regulate the global climate by ...

Driven by climate change, the drought gripping northern Brazil, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana and parts of Venezuela and Colombia has sapped the Amazon River and four of its biggest tributaries ...

This is the first study to quantify the combined impacts of rampant forest loss—which would eventually transform the Amazon into a savanna--and climate change on human health and productivity.

Tribal groups in Earth’s largest rainforest are already being affected by shifts wrought by climate change, reports a paper published last week in the British journal Philosophical Transactions ...

NASA warned that the Amazon rainforest may be showing the first signs of large-scale degradation due to climate change.

Record fires sweeping across the Amazon this month have environmental researchers worried that they will only aggravate the climate change crisis.