By Justin Catanoso Reports on the health and vitality of the Amazon — often dubbed as Earth’s lungs — have been grim for ...

Ecologist Dan Nepstad has studied the Amazon for more than 30 years. He explained to me why it's hard to know the true extent of these fires. DAN NEPSTAD: In an intact Amazon forest - a virgin forest ...

ALTAMIRA, Brazil – If much of the Amazon forest is to wither away, this is the town where that end was foretold. During its campaign to develop the region, Brazil’s former military dictatorship chose ...

The total land surface of the Earth has about a third of its area covered by forests. The forest is highly significant in ...

The drought in the Amazon rainforest looks to be extending into a second year. Last week Brazil’s government declared a state of emergency across more than 250 towns in the region due to lack of ...

As human development increasingly encroaches on the Amazon, researchers find that the growing boundary between forests and ...

Since the start of the 21 st century, major planetary ecosystems, like the Amazon rainforest and Antarctica have consistently deteriorated, but within only the past two years, these two major ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Rainfall is often treated as a gift of geography — a function of latitude, oceans, and atmospheric circulation. A growing body of research suggests ...

For decades, scientists have warned that the Amazon rainforest might one day reach a tipping point, transforming into a savannah as climate pressures intensify. Yet ...