Deforestation is having a more devastating effect on the Amazon rainforest than earlier data suggested. While cutting down ...

The Amazon may be approaching the point of near total collapse, a new study has concluded. The research, published in the journal Nature, found that climate change, combined with water stress and ...

Ecuador is scoping out new debt-for-nature swaps, one to funnel funds into the Amazon rainforest and another for a giant ocean protection zone backed by Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio, people ...

The Amazon rainforest is often called the “lungs of the Earth” and credited with producing some 20 percent of the world’s ...

The degradation of ecosystems around the world threatens UK food security, a long-awaited report says.

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 warming climate fed ...

Atmospheric aerosol particles are essential for the formation of clouds and precipitation, thereby influencing the Earth's energy budget, water cycle, and climate. However, the origin of aerosol ...

Tracy and I on our hike through the rainforest (Tapajós National Forest in Brazil). Tracy is wearing one of the blue ponchos provided by The Nature Conservancy to protect from the heavy rain that ...

RURRENABAQUE, Bolivia—The day the fire came, Dario Mamio Serato remembers that he could not breathe. The Amazon rainforest, known as the lungs of the Earth, was an inferno. Acrid smoke engulfed Mamio ...

The Amazon rainforest, crucial for global climate stability, faces threats from activities like cattle ranching, farming, and illegal operations, risking an irreversible transformation from rainforest ...

The road to hell is paved. Whenever a dirt track in Brazil’s Amazon jungle is overlaid with asphalt, it takes little time for the emerald rainforest surrounding it to disappear in a suffocating plume ...