Despite a drop in the size of deforested areas, the number of wildfires in the region increased by more than 30 percent.

Drug traffickers, illegal miners and criminal syndicates are rapidly expanding across the Amazon, pushing the rainforest closer to ecological collapse.

In 2024, the Amazon region felt the effects of one of the worst droughts in its recorded history — if not the worst. At the ...

Prologue Global climate temperature is a key factor in the survival of the Amazon rainforest, indeed the survival of humans, civilization and the Earth.

The Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C warming limit was designed partly with ecosystems like the Amazon in mind. Keep warming under that mark – the thinking went – and the forest had enough stability to weather ...

How are cold air masses advancing in the United States connected to fertilizers carried by "flying rivers" from Africa that ...

Brazil is on track to record its lowest Amazon deforestation rates since 2012. Despite this major accomplishment, experts ...

The Amazon rainforest represents one of the planet’s most vital ecosystems, acting as a critical regulator of the global climate, a major carbon sink, and a ...

Over the years, an increasing number of dams have been taken out. Between 1912 and 2025, some 2,350 dams have been removed, ...

Deforestation coupled with climate change is rapidly pushing the Amazon Rainforest toward a perilous tipping point that could ...

Researchers examined the combined effects of tree loss and global warming in an effort to better understand how and when an ...

Gold prices have surged in recent years, sparking a mining rush in the Amazon that accelerates deforestation and mercury ...