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

The Amazon rainforest is often called the “lungs of the Earth” and credited with producing some 20 percent of the world’s ...

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 ...

Brazil’s biggest soy producers have withdrawn from the soy moratorium, a pledge to avoid Amazon deforestation.

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 ...

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 ...

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