Human activity and extreme drought is causing far more damage to the Amazon rainforest than previously thought, exacerbating climate change, according to a new study. While many climate studies ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 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 ...

The Amazon River Basin is the world’s largest rainforest, larger than the next two largest rainforests combined, the Congo Basin and Indonesia, and roughly the size of the forty-eight contiguous ...

The Amazon rainforest staggered through another difficult year in 2024. ... It has about 20% of the world’s fresh water and astounding biodiversity, including 16,000 known tree species.

Few things speak so eloquently of the plight of the world’s biggest freshwater basin than the decaying carcasses of the Amazon’s pink river dolphins, says Um só Planeta (Rio de Janeiro ...

Tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest are being cleared and paved over to build a new four-lane highway for, of all things, the upcoming COP30 climate summit in Brazil.

The Amazon rainforest is home to one-tenth of the animal species in the world, according to some scientists. Jaguars, sloths, caimans, howler monkeys, capybaras, pink river dolphins, macaws, anacondas ...

The Amazon is of vital importance because people around the world, as well as locally, depend on the rainforest. Not just for food, water, wood and medicines, but to help stabilise the climate—150-200 ...

WASHINGTON — Archaeologists have uncovered a cluster of lost cities in the Amazon rainforest that were home to at least 10,000 farmers around 2,000 years ago. A series of earthen mounds and ...

BRASILIA – The Amazon rainforest stores the equivalent of almost two years of global carbon emissions, but its role as a carbon sink is under threat, according to a study released Monday.

Amazon rainforest stores carbon for the world, but this carbon sink is at risk, a study finds - The Amazon rainforest contains almost two years of global carbon emissions, but is under threat as a ...