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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Brazil’s biggest soy producers have withdrawn from the soy moratorium, a pledge to avoid Amazon deforestation.

Human expansion in the Amazon increases contact between cities and forests, raising the risk that diseases like yellow fever ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — The bishop sat quietly near the front row, hands folded, listening as Indigenous leaders and church workers spoke about the threats to Peru’s northern forests, a part of the Amazon ...