Few places on earth carry the weight that the Amazon does. It regulates rainfall across continents, stores centuries worth of ...

An ambitious project about to get underway intends to see how the trees will respond to the CO2 levels of the future ...

Deforestation in Brazil’s Legal Amazon drove roughly three-quarters of the region’s dry-season rainfall decline between 1985 and 2020, according to a peer-reviewed study that separated the effects of ...

According to two recently published studies led by scientists from Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE), the ...

The rich plant life that makes up the Amazon rainforest contributes a significant amount of water vapour to Earth’s atmosphere. A recent study found that extensive deforestation here has caused a ...

Extreme river flood levels reach several meters depth, as indicated by the darker shade on the bark of this tree from seasonally flooded forests in the Amazon region. (Bruno B L Cintra, University of ...

At least 15 per cent of the Amazon has already been lost, and further destruction could unleash widespread rainforest dieback with as little as 1.5°C of global warming ...

BRASILIA, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Last year's record drought in the Amazon and less than usual rainfall since caused river water levels to drop rapidly, hindering navigation by barges carrying grains for ...

Scientists discovered that some Amazon butterflies pause reproduction during the dry season to survive extreme heat.

WASHINGTON — Climate change makes the southern Amazon’s rain increasingly sensitive to deforestation, a new study finds. Clearing large areas of forest can trigger severe and lasting reductions in ...

The Amazon Basin, as Earth’s largest tropical forest, exerts a profound influence on regional and global climate through complex interactions between vegetation, the atmosphere and the hydrological ...

A new study suggests the southern portion of the Amazon rainforest is at a much higher risk of dieback due to stronger seasonal drying than projections made by the climate models used in the latest ...