The Amazon rainforest responded to the most severe drought ever recorded in the basin with an unexpected defense mechanism.

Brazil to invest $75 million in highway through Amazon and unveils environmental protection plan - Brazil’s government has ...

Amazon climate extremes once expected decades from now are already appearing today, with longer droughts worsening forest ...

The Amazon Rainforest is one of the most fascinating and mystical places on earth hiding many rare species, including snakes.

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

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Brazilian Amazon deforestation fell to its lowest level since 2017, according to Brazil’s Deforestation Alert System (SAD), ...

By Adriano Machado, Lais Morais and Ricardo Brito ITAITUBA, Brazil, May 29 (Reuters) - Billions of dollars worth of gold is ...

By Rhett Ayers Butler [( In the Amazon, a forest can remain on the map while losing much of what makes it function. The ...

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 ...

MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — Speaking from the Amazon rainforest, President Joe Biden declared Sunday that there’s no going back in America’s “clean energy revolution” even as the incoming Trump ...

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 ...