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

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

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

The world’s climate math increasingly hinges on a surprisingly specific variable: whether the Amazon’s biggest trees are left ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

FILE - Workers stand atop a tower that will spray carbon dioxide into the rainforest north of Manaus, Brazil, May 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Crispim, File) BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — The Amazon ...

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 ...

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

Removing trees deprives the forest of portions of its canopy, which blocks the sun’s rays during the day and retains heat at ...