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

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

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 ...

South America recorded the highest number of fire outbreaks in 14 years in 2024, with Brazil at the epicenter of the crisis. In the Amazon, fire outbreaks grew out of control even amid a sharp ...

Brazil’s official data show deforestation in the Amazon fell 11% in the 12 months to July 2025, with independent monitoring by Imazon confirming a similar trend—evidence that policies under President ...

Hotter and drier conditions driven by climate change are leading to an increasing number of wildfires in North America and around the world. These fires are growing larger and burning longer, ...

Belém, Brazil – Gland, Switzerland (11 SEPTEMBER 2025) — New research published today in Communications Earth and Environment, a Nature Group journal, finds that municipalities in the Amazon region ...

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, ...