Deforestation coupled with climate change is rapidly pushing the Amazon Rainforest toward a perilous tipping point that could ...

By Manuela Andreoni SAO PAULO, May 9 (Reuters) - When Xing Yanling posted on WeChat about her visit to the Brazilian Amazon in April, she described to her friends in China the unforgettable sensation ...

SAO PAULO — The administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva frequently touts how it has sharply slowed deforestation in the Amazon, and indeed it has. When the next official annual ...

Tropical forests store more than 60% of the world's vegetation biomass and are among the most important ecosystems for regulating the global carbon cycle and climate. However, their regulatory role is ...

In 2024, the Amazon region felt the effects of one of the worst droughts in its recorded history — if not the worst. At the ...

Climate change makes the southern Amazon's rain increasingly sensitive to deforestation, a new study finds. Clearing large areas of forest can trigger severe and lasting reductions in rainfall ...

Twelve remarkable rainforest animals—from jaguars and sloths to orangutans, toucans, and poison dart frogs—thrive in the ...

The Amazon rainforest represents one of the planet’s most vital ecosystems, acting as a critical regulator of the global climate, a major carbon sink, and a ...

The Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C warming limit was designed partly with ecosystems like the Amazon in mind. Keep warming under that mark – the thinking went – and the forest had enough stability to weather ...

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