BRAZIL - The Amazon is home to the world’s largest tropical rainforest and is often called the "lungs of the Earth." But a new study shows portions of the rainforest are now emitting more carbon ...
The health of the Amazon forest and river are intertwined. By storing carbon, the forest can be a key part of climate solutions but plans for expanding hydropower could undermine that climate solution ...
Dr. Magali Nehemy stood on the banks of the Tapajós River in the Amazon rainforest when the community's chief—a man in his ...
Deep inside Ecuador’s Amazon basin, scientists have identified a massive new species of anaconda that may be the largest ...
Record-Breaking Carbon Emissions Transform the Amazon from Guardian to Threat The Amazon rainforest experienced its most ...
Highway projects bring destruction to the rainforest and surrounding ecosystems in South America. One connecting Brazil and ...
Human influence across centuries continues to define biodiversity and carbon storage in the world's largest rainforest, according to a new international study published in the Proceedings of the ...
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 ...
The first time Virgilio Viana saw the Amazon up close, he was a 16-year-old with a backpack, two school friends and very little sense of what he was walking into. They arrived by land, drifting along ...
Every time humans cut into the Amazon rainforest or burn or destroy parts of it, they're making people sick. It's an idea Indigenous people have lived by for thousands of years. Now a new study in the ...
ALTAMIRA, Brazil – If much of the Amazon forest is to wither away, this is the town where that end was foretold. During its campaign to develop the region, Brazil’s former military dictatorship chose ...
Atmos reports on Veja's initiative to source rubber from Amazonian seringueiros, aiming to combat deforestation while supporting local communities.