Deforestation is having a more devastating effect on the Amazon rainforest than earlier data suggested. While cutting down ...

The amount of rainfall in the southern Amazon basin has declined by 8 to 11 per cent since 1980, largely due to the impact of ...

Deforestation remains the top culprit paired with several destructive human activities behind Amazon's devastation.

New research published in Nature Ecology and Evolution reveals significant recent shifts in tree diversity among the tropical ...

A forty-year study shows climate change is reshaping Amazon and Andean forests, with uneven tree gains and losses across ...

CAXIUANA NATIONAL FOREST, Brazil (AP) — 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 ...

The Amazon rainforest is often called the “lungs of the Earth” and credited with producing some 20 percent of the world’s ...

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 ...

Brazil is the world’s most biodiverse country, and the title is not closely contested in absolute numbers: between 10% and 15 ...

U.S. President Joe Biden toured Brazil's Amazon rainforest on Sunday, as he called for future generations to protect its wildlife and the delicate ecological balance. Photo courtesy of President Joe ...