Global warming, with its long summers and increasing number of droughts, is introducing a new climate in the Amazon ...

The new climate could lead to widespread tree loss, affecting the Earth's ability to remove carbon dioxide from the ...

This year’s annual UN climate conference COP30 with 50,000 expected attendees held in Belém, Brazil is one-upping the past two COPs (UN Conference of the Parties) that were held by, and dictated by, ...

The Amazon rainforest is home to a diverse cast of plants and animals. This vital, verdant landscape also plays a crucial role in managing the effects of climate change by storing significant amounts ...

A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser, and the temperature rises in places sunlight hits the ground. This is what ...

The Amazon rainforest currently has a few days or weeks of hot drought conditions per year, but researchers say this could increase to 150 days per year by 2100. When you purchase through links on our ...

A new study reveals the Amazon rainforest is transitioning into a 'hypertropical' state due to increasing droughts and heatwaves.

Ahead of the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, developers are carving a four-lane highway through protected tracts of the Amazon rainforest to ease travel for attendees. The highway, one of ...

A massive swath of protected rainforest in Brazil has been slashed to build a new four-lane highway, paving a direct path into the city hosting an upcoming summit on climate change. Dubbed the Avenida ...

Every time humans cut into the Amazon rainforest or burn or destroy parts of it, they’re making people sick. It’s an idea Indigenous people have lived by for thousands of years. Now a new study in the ...