In 2024, the majority of tropical forests didn’t fall to the chainsaw; they burned.For the first time on record, wildfires ...

British journalist Dom Phillips was working for years on a book about saving the Amazon when he was killed in the region by ...

In Brazil’s Amazon, people are trapped in a vicious cycle in which deforestation begets poverty, and poverty begets deforestation. Already, more than a fifth of the country’s rainforest has ...

Explore the Issue Deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest After Brazil, Bolivia has recorded the most deforestation, with more than 30,700 square miles (79,700 square kilometers) of tree cover lost ...

The Amazon rainforest may be able to survive long-term drought caused by climate change but could experience other "profound ...

Over the last century, the Amazon rainforest -- which covers nearly 40 percent of South America -- has lost about 20 percent of its area to deforestation, due to the spread of agriculture and ...

The Amazon rainforest may be able to survive long-term drought caused by climate change, but adjusting to a drier, warmer ...

The Amazon rainforest may be able to survive long-term drought caused by climate change, but adjusting to a drier, warmer ...

Brazil's Minister of the Environment and Climate Change Marina Silva takes part in the 11th Meeting of Environment Ministers ...

The Amazon rainforest is able to endure decades of intense drought. Doing so means losing many trees, releasing stored carbon into the air.

The findings show that adjusting to cope with the effects of climate change could see some parts of the Amazon rainforest lose many of its largest trees.