As the strongest El Niño on record continues to intensify, its effects are already being felt around the world. I Rainforest, ...

Experience the eerie solitude of a night spent alone in the Amazon rainforest. This video captures the spine-chilling ...

Environmental observers saw something else: a referendum on the future of the Amazon rainforest. “We are very serious about ...

Brazil’s upcoming presidential election could reshape the Amazon's future. Control of the country, which contains about 60% ...

Wildfires in the Amazon have consequences that go far beyond the destruction of vegetation, scientists say. A new study has ...

Indigenous peoples forced from the Amazon rainforest are finally getting the legal power to return—and it’s not only about justice. Under their stewardship, the forests can thrive. In 2025, a small, ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that's a critical counterweight to climate change.

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 vanished.

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The rainforest in the Amazon basin transpires vast amounts of gaseous isoprene. Until now, it was assumed that this molecule is not transported far up into the atmosphere, as it rapidly declines when ...

Large parts of the Amazon’s iconic rainforest are nearing an irreversible “tipping point” and collapse in less than 30 years due to deforestation and climate change, scientists warn in a new paper ...

Brazil's incumbent president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and right-wing Flavio Bolsonaro will face off in a nail-biting second ...