Brazil's Amazon rainforest has shrunk by an area as big as Spain over four decades and is nearing a dangerous tipping point, according to monitoring data released Monday. The Amazon was approaching a ...

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 ...

CAXIUANA NATIONAL FOREST – 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 ...

How long would it take for the world’s largest rainforest to burn down? If we don’t do anything to stop it, we’ll soon find ...

Every time humans cut into the Amazon rainforest or burn or destroy parts of it, they're making people sick. It's an idea Indigenous people have lived by for thousands of years. Now a new study in the ...

The Amazon rainforest may be able to survive long-term drought caused by climate change, but adjusting to a drier, warmer world would exact a heavy toll, a study suggests. The Amazon rainforest may be ...

Up to 36% of the Amazon rainforest may resist severe drought far better than scientists previously assumed, according to a growing body of peer-reviewed research linking shallow water tables and ...

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The Amazon forest nears a 'point of no return' after losing 13 percent of its area in Brazil in the past 40 years - Copyright Government of Papua New Guinea/AFP ...