The Amazon rainforest is slowly transitioning to a new, hotter climate with more frequent and intense droughts—conditions ...

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

A new scientific study has provided compelling evidence supporting a long-held belief among Indigenous communities: the destruction of the Amazon rainforest directly impacts human health. Published in ...

As global temperatures keep rising, any drop in the Amazon’s ability to store carbon could speed up warming worldwide. In ...

Deep in the Amazon, the forest hides everything. Now there’s a way to see through it. Ruins of the 18th-century Portuguese village that surrounded the Príncipe da Beira Royal Fortress. COSTA MARQUES, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover global and domestic health care and conservation. Tracy and I on our hike through the rainforest (Tapajós National Forest ...

The Amazon rainforest is moving toward a climate similar to conditions from 10 to 40 million years ago, when global ...

(New York) – Ecuador’s government should expedite the closure of the approximately 240 oil wells operating in the heart of Yasuni National Park in the Amazon rainforest, Human Rights Watch said today.

The Amazon rainforest has yielded yet another new species, according to a recent study published in Zootaxa. Discovered in ...