Need for minerals, biofuels and pulp adding to pressures from ranching, monocrops, oil and logging, analysis finds ...

The Newport aquarium's new temporary exhibit features interactive displays and species from five Amazon ecoregions.

"I think we can confidently say that the more deforestation happens, the lower this global warming threshold becomes." ...

The study found that Amazon forests, like other endangered biomes, are exhibiting signs of resilience decline with more droughts, biodiversity loss, degradation and deforestation. The biome is also ...

The rainforest in the Amazon basin transpires vast amounts of gaseous isoprene. Until now, it was assumed that this molecule is not transported far up into the atmosphere, as it rapidly declines when ...

Andean Parliament declares State of Emergency for Amazon Basin: meet the activist who made it happen. Earlier this month the Amazon Basin netted a necessary win - the Andean Parliament declared a ...

A new report reveals that escalating demands for minerals, biofuels, and pulp are driving rainforests like the Amazon closer ...

The study said that without additional deforestation, such large-scale drying of the Amazon would likely occur only at much ...

Environmental and Indigenous activists say the railway, if it proceeds, will unleash an explosion of carbon and further ...

Deep in the Amazon rainforest, where rivers serve as highways and entire communities sit days away from the nearest ...

Around two-thirds of the Amazon rainforest could shift into degraded forest or savannah-like ecosystems at 1.5-1.9°C of global warming if deforestation increases to roughly 22-28 percent of the Amazon ...