A new type of climate regime is emerging in the Amazon rainforest as intense heat and drought continue to push the region ...

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 sunlight hits the ground. This is what ...

The Amazon’s worst fire season in decades is turning the rainforest into a massive carbon emitter.

The Amazon rainforest currently has a few days or weeks of hot drought conditions per year, but researchers say this could increase to 150 days per year by 2100. When you purchase through links on our ...

The famously verdant Amazon rainforest is in danger of transforming into a dry savannah as various environmental indicators, such as deforestation and climate change, are pushing the ecosystem to a ...

Tree trunks in the Amazon are getting 3.3% thicker every decade as the plants absorb extra carbon dioxide, suggesting they are more resilient to global warming than previously thought. When you ...

Due to climate change, the Amazon is experiencing longer dry seasons and droughts, which could edge it into a new climate known as the “hypertropics.” Crossing this biome threshold would come with ...

The Amazon is changing faster than many researchers once thought possible, and the signals are no longer subtle. From record ...

In 2024, the Amazon Rainforest underwent its most devastating forest fire season in more than two decades. According to a new study by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, the fire-driven ...

As the northern Brazil city of Belem prepares to host the COP30 climate summit in November, a new BBC report has revealed that a stretch of the Amazon rainforest is being cleared to build a road for ...

A new LMU study estimates that land use changes in conjunction with climate change could lead to the loss of up to 38 percent of the Amazon rainforest by the end of the 21st century. The Amazon is the ...

COP30 is expected to hold talks on “ending deforestation” after developers carved a four-lane highway through protected tracts of the Amazon rainforest to facilitate attendees. The massive United ...