The Amazon rainforest, often called the lungs of the Earth, is facing one of its most dangerous moments in modern history as ...

A new study of the Amazon rainforest has found the region is shifting toward a 'hypertropical' state as droughts become ...

As a baby, Elisa Fernández Sánchez’ mother would place her into the bow of the canoe and glide across the murky waters of the ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 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 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 ...

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 ...

A small team in a remote corner of Colombia is surveying every tree in an effort to better understand how much planet-warming carbon the Amazon actually stores. A small team in a remote corner of ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The first time Virgilio Viana saw the Amazon up close, he was a 16-year-old with a backpack, two school friends and very little sense of what he ...

Some of the world's largest soybean traders are preparing to break their agreement to curb deforestation of the Amazon ...

This year’s annual UN climate conference COP30 with 50,000 expected attendees held in Belém, Brazil is one-upping the past two COPs (UN Conference of the Parties) that were held by, and dictated by, ...

This story was produced with assistance from the Pulitzer Center and additional support from the Pendleton Mazer Family Fund and the Whole Systems Foundation. [CLIP: Sound of the forest at ZF2] Daniel ...