The rich plant life that makes up the Amazon rainforest contributes a significant amount of water vapour to Earth’s atmosphere. A recent study found that extensive deforestation here has caused a ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) -Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rose in July, breaking a 15-month streak of falling destruction under President Luiz Inacio da Silva, preliminary government data showed on ...

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.

Brazilian farmers want to end a ban on planting soya on cleared land, which critics say would spur deforestation.

A study using detailed 3D imagery found that the carbon released by roads, selective logging, fires and natural disturbances in the southern Brazilian Amazon are not fully reflected in the country’s ...

Four key climate systems are showing signs of instability and approaching tipping points with potentially abrupt and ...

The degradation of the vast Congo Basin, known as the world’s “second lung”, is taking a toll across the African continent and threatening one of the world’s most traded and beloved crops: cocoa.

After the Cop30 talks in the Brazilian city of Belem concluded on Saturday, we face climate peril the other way, as ...

The Ferrograo railway project would transport commodities including corn and soybeans nearly 621 miles from a city on the ...

MANAUS, Brazil -- Joe Biden witnessed the devastation of drought up close as the first sitting American president to visit the Amazon rainforest Sunday, declaring that nobody can reverse "the clean ...

MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — Speaking from the Amazon rainforest, President Joe Biden declared Sunday that there’s no going back in America’s “clean energy revolution” even as the incoming Trump ...