The Amazon Rainforest is facing accelerating threats from deforestation, illegal mining, and climate change jeopardizing one ...

Researchers studying 15,000 birds in the Amazon rainforest found that nearly all of the birds’ bodies have become lighter since the 1980s, losing on average about 2% of their body weight every ...

It was the smallest area cleared since 2018, the year before Bolsonaro took office. The Amazon jungle is the world’s largest rainforest and its protection is seen as vital to curbing climate change.

The towering--and tiny--trees of the Amazon can live for hundreds of years. But a 22-year study of what happens when the rain forest is ... the shady undergrowth of virgin rain forest whose ...

Amazon rainforest lost area the size of Israel in 2020. Despite the devastation of the 2019 fires in Brazil, ones in 2020 were worse. By Neil Giardino . February 5, 2021, 4:00 AM. 2:07.

The Amazon rainforest is losing its ability to recover from destruction, and parts of it are approaching “a catastrophic tipping point”, warns a leading scientist after a new study using two ...

The Amazon Rainforest Is at Risk of Becoming Savanna. New research, reliant on satellite data, shows that 75% of the rainforest is losing the ability to bounce back from drought and human activity.

BELEM, Brazil, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Eight Amazon nations agreed to a list of unified environmental policies and measures to bolster regional cooperation at a major rainforest summit in Brazil on ...

Tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest are being cleared and paved over to build a new four-lane highway for, of all things, the upcoming COP30 climate summit in Brazil.

Large swathes of Amazon rainforest that appear healthy may be on the brink of mass dieback—when a plant starts to die beginning at the tips of its roots or leaves—due to deforestation and ...

An eight-mile stretch of Amazon rainforest is being cleared to make space for a new four-lane highway that's being built in Brazil to ferry delegates to a climate conference later this year.

In 2020, the Covid pandemic slowed down just about everything—save for deforestation of the Amazon. That year, Brazil lost almost 15 square miles of vegetation per day, equal to 24 trees every ...