Geoengineering could protect the Amazon rainforest from climate change, new research shows. Stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) aims to artificially cool Earth by increasing the reflection of ...
Climate change makes the southern Amazon's rain increasingly sensitive to deforestation, a new study finds. Clearing large areas of forest can trigger severe and lasting reductions in rainfall ...
Democracy Now! is broadcasting from the U.N. climate summit in the Brazilian rainforest city of Belém, near the mouth of the Amazon River, where the COP30 summit has entered its second week of ...
The drought in the central Amazon was already showing signs of unusual severity in early September 2023, but the situation turned catastrophic by the end of the month, when the carcasses of two ...
Activists with Coordination of the Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon stand next to a giant inflatable capybara, a mammal native to South America, during a protest Oct. 14, 2025, to ...