The Amazon rainforest experienced its most devastating fire season in over two decades during 2024. The 2024 fires released substantial amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which roughly ...

There are thousands of tree species in the Amazon rainforest, many of which grow to between 80 and 100 feet tall, developing huge networks of branches that make up the canopy layer. A few trees grow ...

“A major question is whether a large-scale collapse of the Amazon forest system could actually happen within the twenty-first century.” (Source: Bernardo M. Flores, et al, Critical Transitions in the ...

The launch of the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) at the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil underscores how the Amazon Forest can be part of the climate solution. There’s another Amazon, ...

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

Climate change, deforestation and other human threats are driving the Amazon towards the limits of survival. Researchers are racing to chart its future. The Pulitzer Center in Washington DC supported ...

Researchers at the University of Arizona analyzed 20 years of satellite data to understand how different Amazon forest ecosystems respond to drought. They found that variations in water-table depth, ...

For roughly 65 million years, the forests of the Amazon were resilient to changes in the climate. But that is changing rapidly, as the region is exposed to unprecedented stress from global warming, ...

The Amazon rainforest could approach a tipping point, which could lead to a large-scale collapse with serious implications for the global climate system. A new Nature study by an international ...

In 2006, Brazilian President Lula da Silva’s government passed the Public Forest Management Law, implementing a forest concession scheme designed to regulate and legalize logging activities in ...