Amazon Rainforest

Millions are struggling to find food and clean water as river depths shrivel by up to 90 percent.

Thiago Mundano's latest work combines materials from Brazil's wildfires and floods.

The Amazônia Revelada project aims to identify sites in the Amazon by combining state-of-the-art technology with the traditional knowledge of forest peoples.

Brazil recorded 38,000 fires in August 2024, the worst for that month since 2010.

An outdoorsman in the Amazon arose to the nightmare of ants destroying his tent, allowing larger insects to get inside.

Brazil's President has pledged to finish building a road that experts say could worsen Amazon deforestation.

Parts of the region are suffocating under a blanket of thick, debilitating smoke.

Scientists want to undertake experiments to confirm that a type of geoengineering—solar radiation intervention—would be effective at limiting temperatures.

The Amazon rainforest lost 1,700 square miles of land in the past 12 months, the largest reduction since 2016.

Deforestation for farmland, illegal mining, and logging has boosted the spread of viruses of all kinds in the Amazon rainforest.

The newly-described piranha relative is named after a character from J.R.R. Tolkien's iconic fantasy novel.

Researchers found that by 2050 several climate stressors could push the Amazon to a tipping point that could bring it to the point of no return.

COP28 produced more money to protect the forests and other ecosystems that can draw down CO2. But new data shows fossil fuels still threaten protected forests.

Colombian Environment Minister Susana Muhamad said her country is reducing fossil fuels and deforestation, but global economics don't support climate action.

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The financial system urgently needs to integrate sustainable practices and operations, and promoting a carbon emissions market is a way to support environmental protection.

The razor-toothed fish are seen in the video ripping into its body.

The previously unknown creature does not spin webs like many other spiders but instead actively stalks its prey among the vegetation of the rainforest.

Without a system of carbon credits to support forest protection, many of the world's forests will succumb to development, logging, and commercial activities.

Experts explain that these endangered dolphins are usually non-aggressive, and will only attack if they feel under threat.

President Joe Biden pledged to mobilize $20 billion for the Amazon, but that promise remains unfilled. Now is the time to turn words into action by moving boldly on three fronts.

New research has found 38 percent of the remaining Amazon has been degraded by human actions, including forest fires, logging, and extreme drought.

Under Bolsonaro's presidency, an estimated 16,000 square miles of the Amazon rainforest have been lost. Can Lula end the deforestation as he promises?

Dom Phillips, who had been writing a book in the Amazon, went missing last week along with expert field guide Bruno Pereira.

Both fish - commonly referred to as South American darters - could disappear if the Brazilian government does not take immediate action, say scientists.

It had been more than a decade since Brazil recorded over 10,000 square kilometers (3,861.022 square miles) of deforestation in the Amazon in a year.

Ending violence and conserving forests are interconnected goals.

"What's at stake is the ability to advocate for human rights in our society," Steven Donziger said the day he began serving a six-month prison sentence.

"It's because of changes of the global local climate, especially. We have less humidity and less rainfall," said Petteri Taalas, secretary-general of the WMO.

With the Amazon rainforest no longer slowing the effects of global warming, but instead contributing to it, we now have an even narrower window in which to act.