Local deforestation reduces rainfall in the Amazon rainforest wheres global climate change is the main factor for the ...

By Rhett Ayers Butler [( For decades the world’s largest rainforest has been getting drier. A new study published in Nature Communications disentangles how much of this shift can be blamed on humanity ...

In Brazil’s southern Amazonian region, where the notorious “arc of deforestation” has been expanding since the 1970s, forest ...

The suspension of the moratorium could cost the Amazon dearly. It also threatens biodiversity and the communities that rely ...

Scientists in Colombia’s Amazon are capturing and testing endangered pink river dolphins to monitor mercury contamination ...

For decades, the dry season in the Amazon has been getting drier. A new study found about 75% of the decrease in rainfall is directly linked to deforestation.

BOGOTA, Colombia — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change. A ...

Missouri State University archaeologists Daniel Pierce and Christopher Bodine are heading to Brazil to study ancient Amazonian geoglyphs that may reveal an unknown civilization.

A new regional conservation area has been created in Loreto, the largest region in Peru’s Amazon. The Medio Putumayo Algodón ...

Brazilian Legal Amazonia (BLA)—which comprises the entirety of the Amazon Basin located in Brazil and vast adjacent swathes of the Cerrado, spanning nine states—is more than 5 million square ...

By Daniel NepstadLuiza MuccilloMonica de los RiosRonaldo Seroa da MottaThuanny Vieira Misconceptions about jurisdictional ...

Scientists in Colombia’s Amazon are capturing and testing endangered pink river dolphins to monitor mercury contamination from illegal gold mining and deforestation ...