Now, researchers warn another “Super” El Niño could doom the Amazon rainforest. “The southern Amazon is close to a tipping ...

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On Thursday, humidity levels across the stretch from D.C. to Boston were about as high as notoriously humid cities such as ...

Previous strong El Niños have tested the Amazon’s limits, causing lasting damage on top of the destruction wrought by deforestation and climate change. El Niño-related droughts fueled rampant ...

The Amazon rainforest might be closer to a tipping point than scientists thought. Some fear that droughts and fire could nudge it into irreversible decline.

Trade winds push about 180–200 million tons of Saharan dust westward annually, carrying it more than 1,600 miles over the ...

The southwest of the Amazon rain forest has long been regarded as a pristine wilderness, undisturbed by large scale human ...

The Amazon rainforest was hit with a historic drought in 2023, raising concerns that the complex ecosystem was on the verge of collapse. Scientists are now warning that there may be less time to turn ...

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.

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A study published in Nature used LiDAR technology, a system that sends laser pulses from the air to create detailed maps of ...

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