Researchers examined the combined effects of tree loss and global warming in an effort to better understand how and when an ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — 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 ...

Carbon loss accelerates: Satellite and field data reveal that storms and drying are shortening the Amazon's carbon storage time, undermining its role as a global climate regulator. Rainfall ...

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

At least 15 per cent of the Amazon has already been lost, and further destruction could unleash widespread rainforest dieback ...

Indigenous organizations from across the Amazon and Latin America have sent a letter to the United Nations warning that ...

Antonio has spent the past seven years running toward fires that most others run from. A firefighter in the Brazilian Amazon since 2019, he works inside the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve, one of the ...

Around two-thirds of the Amazon rainforest could shift into degraded forest or savanna-like ecosystems at 1.5–1.9°C of global warming if deforestation increases to roughly 22–28% of the Amazon, ...

Deforestation harms the planet and humans in many ways. Trees play a major role in the global effort to slow the pace of climate change, preserve wildlife, and support more than eight billion people.