Deforestation is having a more devastating effect on the Amazon rainforest than earlier data suggested. While cutting down ...

A forty-year study shows climate change is reshaping Amazon and Andean forests, with uneven tree gains and losses across ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rain forest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change. A ...

Deforestation remains the top culprit paired with several destructive human activities behind Amazon's devastation.

ALTAMIRA, Brazil – If much of the Amazon forest is to wither away, this is the town where that end was foretold. During its campaign to develop the region, Brazil’s former military dictatorship chose ...

Tens of thousands of fires swept through the Brazilian Amazon during the recently concluded forest fire season, with the environmental organization WWF reporting on Monday that the blazes destroyed an ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — The Amazon rainforest stores the equivalent of almost two years of global carbon emissions, but its role as a carbon sink is under threat, according to a study released Monday.

Human activity continues to expand ever further into wild areas, throwing ecology out of balance. But what begins as an ...

After analyzing 40 years of tree records across the Andes and Amazon, researchers found that climate change is reshaping ...