Major soybean traders may abandon the Amazon Soy Moratorium, risking deforestation, to retain tax benefits in Brazil's Mato ...

Parts of the Amazon are drifting into uncharted territory. According to a concerning new study published in Nature, the ...

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

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

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

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.

An eight-mile stretch of Amazon rainforest is being cleared to make space for a new four-lane highway that's being built in Brazil to ferry delegates to a climate conference later this year. The ...

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. Reading time 3 minutes When it comes to ...

Due to climate change, the Amazon is experiencing longer dry seasons and droughts, which could edge it into a new climate known as the “hypertropics.” Crossing this biome threshold would come with ...

A UF climate activist is leading a 2,693 mile journey across the Amazon that’ll end with a United Nations conference. A group of climate change leaders are embarking on an expedition down the Amazon ...

A new LMU study estimates that land use changes in conjunction with climate change could lead to the loss of up to 38 percent of the Amazon rainforest by the end of the 21st century.