The Amazon is facing a hotter, drier future, with rising drought stress threatening forests that help regulate Earth’s ...

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

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 health of the Amazon forest and river are intertwined. By storing carbon, the forest can be a key part of climate solutions but plans for expanding hydropower could undermine that climate solution ...

As the global climate warms and the dry season lengthens, signs of a shift towards a hypertropical climate pattern are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In just under a year from now, the world will turn to Belém, Brazil, a city on the edge of the Amazon Rainforest, for the ...

A new LMU study estimates that land use changes in conjunction with climate change could lead to the loss of up to 38 percent of the Amazon rainforest by the end of the 21st century.