The Amazon rainforest in Brazil is often referred to as the ‘lungs of the Earth.’ If you think of the planet as a living being, it is not difficult to imagine its fate if the lungs are impaired or ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

In 2024, the Amazon Rainforest underwent its most devastating forest fire season in more than two decades. According to a new study by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, the fire-driven ...

The giants of the Amazon are getting even bigger. A sweeping, new study has found the rainforest’s largest trees are not only holding their ground, but they’re thriving — growing, multiplying in ...

Critics and others showered mockery on President Joe Biden’s trip to the Amazon rainforest by claiming he “wandered” into the jungle after his speech there — but the full video shows this to be false.

President Biden left the podium and wandered off into the Amazon, during a visit to the rainforest in Brazil on Sunday. "History is literally watching us now, so let's preserve this sacred place for ...

The Amazon rainforest currently has a few days or weeks of hot drought conditions per year, but researchers say this could ...

Researchers caution that the Amazon rainforest could disappear in the next hundred years, due to the combined effects of climate change and deforestation, and a new model predicts how that could ...

For roughly 65 million years, the forests of the Amazon were resilient to changes in the climate. But that is changing rapidly, as the region is exposed to unprecedented stress from global warming, ...

Just the name Anaconda is enough to give people chills. These snakes are the largest in the world, and their massive size can leave anyone stunned. While many people know about Anacondas, not everyone ...