Fires could turn the Amazon rainforest into a desert as human activity and climate change threaten ‘lungs of the world’, according to scientsits. It’s been a bad year for the Amazon, which ...

As Brazil prepares to host COP30, construction of a controversial highway through the Amazon rainforest has sparked criticism ...

Frequent forest fires and agricultural expansion are degrading soil health in the southern Brazilian Amazon. This results in ...

If tropical rainforests are the lungs of the Earth, then 2024 was a year of respiratory failure. Fires, fueled by climate ...

A patch of degraded forest the size of a soccer field is home to the world’s longest-running experiment simulating ...

How Amazon forest loss may affect water—and climate—far away. A surge in deforestation under Brazil's president could "tip" the Amazon, affecting weather and water supplies—in Brazil and beyond.

Deforestation in the Amazon remains dangerously high. This continues to devastate the lands of Indigenous peoples and local communities, killing wildlife, and worsening the climate crisis. Every ...

Lightning-laced micro-storms may fell more rainforest giants than dryness or heat, forcing a rethink of forest-management ...

Historic forest fires in Brazil last year scorched through an area larger than the size of Italy, recording a burned area ...

Deforestation in the Amazon remains dangerously high. This continues to devastate the lands of Indigenous peoples and local communities, killing wildlife, and worsening the climate crisis. Every ...

Fires raged across the Amazon rainforest in 2024, annihilating more than 4.6 million hectares of primary tropical forest—the most biodiverse and carbon-dense type of forest on Earth.