The Amazon rainforest could turn into the driest savanna in the next hundred years due to the combined effects of natural and human activities.

The Amazon rainforest can become a distant memory because it's at the brink of a tipping point that could transform it for ...

The area of Amazon rainforest lost to fires in Brazil in July fell 65 percent compared to a year ago, the MapBiomas ...

When most of us think about clearing away the Amazon rainforest, we have visions of chainsaws and scorched earth. In recent years, vast swathes of the rainforest have been razed for cattle ...

Fires could turn the Amazon rainforest into a desert as human activity and climate change threaten ‘lungs of the world’, according to scientsits. It’s been a bad year for the Amazon, which ...

ALTAMIRA, Brazil – If much of the Amazon forest is to wither away, this is the town where that end was foretold.

Drought, fires and deforestation battered Amazon rainforest in 2024 Experts say Amazon countries need to do more to strengthen cross-border collaboration and that the global community who reap the ...

Aerial view of a burnt area in the Amazon rainforest, near the Lago do Cunia Extractive Reserve, on the border of the states of Rondonia and Amazonas, northern Brazil, on August 31, 2022.

A new study published today by Wake Forest University and an international team of scientists reveals that tree communities ...

The opening section of Amazonia, a group exhibition of historical and contemporary art about the Amazon rainforest at Pratt Manhattan Gallery, presents a telling aesthetic contrast.

Archaeologists have discovered a 250-year-old lost city in Brazil's Amazon rainforest with the help of advanced remote sensing technology.