Covering more than 2 million square miles in South America, the world's biggest tropical rainforest hides lots of scary ...

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Dave Boyer heads to Brazil to explore the largest tropical rainforest on Earth. It’s a place of breathtaking beauty and constant sensory stimulation. But here, just one step can lead to calamity. When ...

The Amazon rainforest -- considered one of the world's most important climate regulators - continues to face serious threats ...

Amazon Rainforest Fires Threaten Climate Change Efforts — What's at Stake for the Planet. It's a "crime against the planet, and a crime against humankind," said ecologist Adriane Muelbert. By.

Why the Amazon could be at risk of "collapsing" 04:16 French President Emmanuel Macron wants the wildfires raging in the Amazon rainforest to be on the agenda at this weekend's G-7 summit.

Parts of the Amazon rainforest are now emitting more carbon dioxide than they absorb, raising fears of the potentially devastating impact on its fragile ecosystems and a further worsening of the ...

The Amazon has lost between 15% and 17% of its trees, and at current deforestation rates, the rainforest could cross Nobre’s threshold in 15 to 30 years. “We are almost seeing the tipping ...

Why the Amazon could be at risk of "collapsing" 04:16 The deforestation of Brazil's Amazon rainforest has accelerated to the highest rate in more than a decade, the country's space agency said Monday.

390 square miles of the Amazon rainforest was burned in the first 29 days of April. AP Photo/Andre Penner. Environmentalists blamed lax federal protections from Brazil’s right-wing leader, ...