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

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

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

A study has revealed that humanity's footprint in the Amazon rainforest is reshaping the forest in ways scientists didn't ...

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

A scraping sound reverberated from the hull as our tiny wooden boat once again juddered to a halt, sending us lurching forward. One of our two-man Indigenous crew jumped from the stern into the ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Armed groups have moved in to the space left by the Farc after the civil war, cutting down rainforest to control land and build thousands of kilometres of smuggling routes ...

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.