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

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

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

"I think we can confidently say that the more deforestation happens, the lower this global warming threshold becomes." ...

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

Organized crime in South America is a growing threat to the Amazon rainforest, according to a report published Tuesday, as ...

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

Despite being small in size, mosquitoes can flourish in the most vibrant environments found on Earth. The rainforest, wetland ...

Climate funding given by Britain to Brazil comes with ambition but with less clear impacts for communities, forests and ...

Emerging Pacific Ocean heat, combined with ongoing human-caused global warming, is a grim recipe for deadly climate extremes.

Indigenous organizations from across the Amazon and Latin America will send a letter Monday to the United Nations warning ...

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 ...