Global warming, with its long summers and increasing number of droughts, is introducing a new climate in the Amazon ...
The new climate could lead to widespread tree loss, affecting the Earth's ability to remove carbon dioxide from the ...
The Amazon’s worst fire season in decades is turning the rainforest into a massive carbon emitter.
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. A warming climate fed ...
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.
The year 2024 saw significant developments in tropical rainforest conservation, deforestation, and degradation. While progress in some regions provided glimmers of hope, systemic challenges and ...
The story of the world’s tropical forests in 2025 was not one of dramatic reversal, but one shaped by accumulated pressure.
New research tries to anticipate road building to identify areas in the Amazon, Asia and Africa that are likely to face deforestation. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey Preventing illegal road building could ...
For roughly 65 million years, the forests of the Amazon were resilient to changes in the climate. But that is changing rapidly, as the region is exposed to unprecedented stress from global warming, ...