By Alexandre de Santi In just under a year from now, the world will turn to Belém, Brazil, a city on the edge of the Amazon ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging ...

In Brazil, large swaths of the rainforest were draped in smoke in August from fires raging across the Amazon, Cerrado ...

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.

In the last two decades, many advances for the conservation of the Amazon have been achieved through a better understanding of land-use change impacts, the creation of protected areas, the ...

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 ...

Conversion of Amazon rainforest to grazing lands is typically carried out by burning forest, which directly impacts multiple planetary boundaries, including the land-system change, climate change ...

The fund is meant to be financed through various sources, including lease fees from developers, compensatory afforestation payments, a percentage of profits from forest land use and revenue from ...

Credit: Martin St-Amant / CC BY-SA 3.0 Researchers discovered an amphibious mouse in the Amazon rainforest of Peru that can live both on land and in water. This unique find, along with 26 other new ...

Tens of thousands of fires swept through the Brazilian Amazon during the recently concluded forest fire season, with the environmental organization WWF reporting on Monday that the blazes ...