Known as the “hypertropics,” this climate is defined by hot drought conditions—and hasn’t been seen on Earth for tens of ...
The Amazon rainforest is slowly transitioning to a new, hotter climate with more frequent and intense droughts—conditions ...
The Amazon rainforest is moving toward a climate similar to conditions from 10 to 40 million years ago, when global ...
CAXIUANA NATIONAL FOREST, Brazil (AP) — A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser and the temperature rises in places ...
The health of the Amazon forest and river are intertwined. By storing carbon, the forest can be a key part of climate solutions but plans for expanding hydropower could undermine that climate solution ...
This year’s annual UN climate conference COP30 with 50,000 expected attendees held in Belém, Brazil is one-upping the past two COPs (UN Conference of the Parties) that were held by, and dictated by, ...
Every time humans cut into the Amazon rainforest or burn or destroy parts of it, they’re making people sick. It’s an idea Indigenous people have lived by for thousands of years. Now a new study in the ...