The Amazon rainforest, often called the lungs of the Earth, is facing one of its most dangerous moments in modern history as ...

The Amazon’s worst fire season in decades is turning the rainforest into a massive carbon emitter.

Known as the “hypertropics,” this climate is defined by hot drought conditions—and hasn’t been seen on Earth for tens of millions of years.

The Amazon rainforest currently has a few days or weeks of hot drought conditions per year, but researchers say this could ...

Around the world, politicians, backed by powerful corporations, are presenting the public with false choices between environmental protection and economic growth.

The Amazon may be approaching the point of near total collapse, a new study has concluded. The research, published in the journal Nature, found that climate change, combined with water stress and ...

A new study predicts that by 2100, the Amazon rainforest could experience up to 150 days of hot drought conditions each year, causing mass tree die-offs.

As the global climate warms and the dry season lengthens, signs of a shift towards a hypertropical climate pattern are starting to emerge in the Amazon rainforest.

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change.

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 ...

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, ...

ALTO RIO GUAMA INDIGENOUS TERRITORY, Brazil — The Indigenous adolescents danced in a circle under the thatched-roof hut from nearly dawn to dusk while parents looked on from the perimeter. Some of the ...