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

Thousands of fires are currently wreaking havoc in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. Many of them have been blazing for months, and it could take months more still to put them out. Although fires ...

In the Amazon, fire outbreaks grew out of control ... since rainforest moisture usually protects the rainforest from fire. “This is very frightening,” Alencar said. In August 2024, Rodrigo ...

A study reveals that fire emissions in the Amazon and Cerrado are largely driven by the smoldering combustion of woody debris ...

The Trump administration’s decision to close the U.S. Agency for International Development has drawn widespread criticism from congressional Democrats ...

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

They fear Donald Trump’s second administration will bring nothing good for the Amazon rainforest. Besides Trump’s Day 1 move to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, they fear he’ll cut ...