Despite a drop in the size of deforested areas, the number of wildfires in the region increased by more than 30 percent.

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 ...

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 of being “enveloped by tens of thousands of ...

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 ...

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 ...