Deforestation, rather than the burning of fossil fuels, is the main reason Brazil is the world's sixth-largest emitter of ...

Scientists warn coral ecosystems, on which nearly a billion people depend for food and livelihood, are tipping into irreversible decline ...

Crucial for marine life and the global economy, coral reefs are the planet's first major environmental system to cross a ...

Scientists warn that “flying rivers” — invisible streams of moisture that carry rain from the Atlantic Ocean westward across the Amazon — are weakening as deforestation and climate change advance ...

Around a billion people depend on coral reef ecosystems for food. However, scientists warned in the Global Tipping Points ...

The global die-off of coral reefs signals a critical shift in Earth’s climate system with global environmental consequences along with economic ones.

Something else must be amplifying the effect. The most likely culprit is the extensive, record-breaking drought that has ...

The Amazon’s “tipping point” refers to the transition of the rainforest into a drier, savanna ecosystem. The rainforest’s ecological balance depends on the transport and recycling of moisture, but ...

In the new research, the northwest states of Roraima and Amazonas prevent the most deforestation through designated Indigenous lands and other protected areas. Of the 63.4 million hectares of ...

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest has fallen for the fourth straight year, the government said Thursday, a boost ...