The Amazon is increasingly affected by climate change, compounded by accumulated deforestation and forest degradation.

Atmospheric aerosol particles are essential for the formation of clouds and precipitation, thereby influencing the Earth's ...

In Brazil´s Amazonas state, almost 6,000 riverine dwellers authorized to fish have reported a significant drop in production ...

When the United Nations climate conference COP29 kicks off Monday in Baku, Azerbaijan, attendees will be grappling with the ...

Brazil’s Amazon dry season just ended with a staggering 846% increase in burned forest area compared to the year before ...

The men had left their Amazon rainforest encampment at dawn ... dismembered and buried deep in the forest. Prosecutors have filed murder charges against Pelado, who led investigators to ...

The Amazon region is a global hotspot of biodiversity and plays a key role in the climate system because of its ability to store large amounts of carbon and its influence on the global water cycle.

Deforestation in the Amazon from August 2023 to July this year saw a 30.6% reduction compared to the same period prior, ...

Imagine this: Leonardo DiCaprio, the eco-warrior of Hollywood, accused of bankrolling fire-raisers in the Amazon. Yes, Leonardo is the guy who gave us The Revenant and pretty much every other ...

Amazon forest has lost an area the size of Germany and France Deforestation, mainly for mining and agricultural purposes, has led to the loss of 12.5 percent of the Amazon's plant cover from 1985 ...

But the loss of forest and wetlands lowers the ability of ... world needs to exert political pressure on the countries in the Amazon to change their "nonsensical" laws and policies.

Today, because of humans—or to be more precise, consumers driving the forest’s destruction and people profiting from it—roughly 18 percent of the Amazon has been deforested and an even ...