Despite a drop in the size of deforested areas, the number of wildfires in the region increased by more than 30 percent.

Climate change makes the southern Amazon's rain increasingly sensitive to deforestation, a new study finds. Clearing large ...

Deforestation coupled with climate change is rapidly pushing the Amazon Rainforest toward a perilous tipping point that could ...

This aerial view shows trucks carrying wood from a deforested area in the Amazon rainforest, in the surroundings of Belém, Brazil, on Wednesday during the COP30 U.N. Climate Change Conference. (Mauro ...

Researchers examined the combined effects of tree loss and global warming in an effort to better understand how and when an ...

In 2024, the Amazon region felt the effects of one of the worst droughts in its recorded history — if not the worst. At the ...

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 ...

Democracy Now! is broadcasting from the U.N. climate summit in the Brazilian rainforest city of Belém, near the mouth of the Amazon River, where the COP30 summit has entered its second week of ...

Around two-thirds of the Amazon rainforest could shift into degraded forest or savanna-like ecosystems at 1.5–1.9°C of global warming if deforestation increases to roughly 22–28% of the Amazon, ...

The Amazon rainforest represents one of the planet’s most vital ecosystems, acting as a critical regulator of the global climate, a major carbon sink, and a ...