Swedish-British billionaire Johan Eliasch made a significant move in 2005. He purchased a vast tract of Amazon rainforest in ...

The Brazilian Amazon is on pace to see forest clearing hit a record low this year, government figures show. Officials credit ...

The Amazon's biggest trees store disproportionately more carbon than smaller trees do, new study finds. But in the Peruvian Amazon, large trees are currently prioritized for harvest.

The Amazon Rainforest—a vast green expanse across nine countries, covering over six million square kilometers. From above, it is a living mosaic, dense, vibrant, and teeming with life. Glide over the ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rain forest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change. A ...

The Amazon may be approaching the point of near total collapse, a new study has concluded. The research, published in the journal Nature, found that climate change, combined with water stress and ...

Deforestation in the Amazon is making the region hotter and drier, with less rainfall as the forest loses its ability to ...

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 ...

CAXIUANA NATIONAL FOREST – 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 ...

Every time humans cut into the Amazon rainforest or burn or destroy parts of it, they’re making people sick. It’s an idea Indigenous people have lived by for thousands of years. Now a new study in the ...

In no small feat of geographic genius, a sizable segment of Flinn Elementary School in Sissonville became a part of the ...