Need for minerals, biofuels and pulp adding to pressures from ranching, monocrops, oil and logging, analysis finds ...

On Earth, there are a handful of places that can truly be called “one of a kind.” The Amazon rainforest is one of those truly magical places. The Amazon River basin is like a real-life treasure chest ...

The study found that Amazon forests, like other endangered biomes, are exhibiting signs of resilience decline with more droughts, biodiversity loss, degradation and deforestation. The biome is also ...

The rainforest in the Amazon basin transpires vast amounts of gaseous isoprene. Until now, it was assumed that this molecule is not transported far up into the atmosphere, as it rapidly declines when ...

Andean Parliament declares State of Emergency for Amazon Basin: meet the activist who made it happen. Earlier this month the Amazon Basin netted a necessary win - the Andean Parliament declared a ...

Deep in the Amazon rainforest, where rivers serve as highways and entire communities sit days away from the nearest ...

Around two-thirds of the Amazon rainforest could shift into degraded forest or savanna-like ecosystems at 1.5–1.9°C of global ...

A new report reveals that escalating demands for minerals, biofuels, and pulp are driving rainforests like the Amazon closer ...

Environmental and Indigenous activists say the railway, if it proceeds, will unleash an explosion of carbon and further ...

The study said that without additional deforestation, such large-scale drying of the Amazon would likely occur only at much ...