As deforestation increases in the Amazon, it will decrease precipitation in California and create drier conditions in ...

With Donald Trump settling back into the White House, advocates for the Amazon worry about what his second term will mean for ...

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. A warming climate fed ...

Carbon markets investor Silvania, backed by Swiss-trading house Mercuria, announced a $1.5 billion fund in collaboration two ...

Complex organisms, thousands of times smaller than a grain of sand, can shape massive ecosystems and influence the fate of ...

The Amazon rainforest is often called the "lungs of the Earth," but for years, those lungs have been under siege. Now, there's finally some good news to share. Over the past year, deforestation in the ...

According to WWF, cattle ranching accounts for around 80 percent of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. This isn’t just catastrophic for wildlife and biodiversity, but it’s also driving up ...

One of the biggest drivers of deforestation in the Amazon is industrial farming. Setting fire to the forest is one of the main ways humans get rid of trees. Burning trees also makes the forest ...

In Alto Mayo, a forest in Peru, there's more than meets the eye — a recent survey revealed a treasure trove of biodiversity.

Scientists discovered microbes in Amazon peatlands that control carbon storage. If peatlands stay stable, they store carbon.

Experts are urging more investment in fire prevention since the rainforest ... progressive deforestation,” Alencar said. In 2024, fire outbreaks spread throughout the Amazon, Pantanal and ...