The Amazon rainforest, often called the lungs of the Earth, is facing one of its most dangerous moments in modern history as ...

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

Parts of the Amazon are drifting into uncharted territory. According to a concerning new study published in Nature, the ...

The launch of the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) at the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil underscores how the Amazon Forest can be part of the climate solution. There’s another Amazon, ...

A new LMU study estimates that land use changes in conjunction with climate change could lead to the loss of up to 38% of the ...

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 change.

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ken Silverstein covers global energy and climate issues. Most people envision the Amazon AMZN rainforests as a tropical paradise ...

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, ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The first time Virgilio Viana saw the Amazon up close, he was a 16-year-old with a backpack, two school friends and very little sense of what he ...

From the vast Amazon Rainforest and the wild Congo Rainforest to Australia’s ancient Daintree Rainforest, the misty Tongass ...

As the global climate warms and the dry season lengthens, signs of a shift towards a hypertropical climate pattern are starting to emerge in the Amazon rainforest.