The Amazon rainforest is of crucial importance to the Earth's ecosystem, given its capacity to store substantial amounts of ...

The Brazilian Amazon is on pace to see forest clearing hit a record low this year, government figures show. Officials credit ...

Deforestation in the Amazon is causing significant regional changes in climate compared to areas with forest cover above 80%.

For almost two decades, Brazil's largest soy producers guaranteed their products did not come from land cleared in the Amazon rainforest. Now, all bets are off.A moratorium that has protected vital ...

Rainfall is often treated as a gift of geography — a function of latitude, oceans, and atmospheric circulation. A growing body of research suggests that in the tropics, it is also a product of ...

Deforestation in the Amazon is making the region hotter and drier, with less rainfall as the forest loses its ability to ...

Brazil’s latest satellite alerts indicate that deforestation in the Amazon has continued to fall into early 2026, extending a downward trend that began after a sharp rise earlier in the decade. Data ...

Struggling kelp forests like those along the California coast show why 'out of sight, out of mind' is not good climate change ...

Every year, tropical forests release countless litres of water into the atmosphere, generating rain. New research has ...

The Amazon Rainforest stretches endlessly across South America, forming the largest tropical rainforest on Earth. From above, ...

Scientists realized that the rain-making services of tropical forests have long been taken for granted, so they stepped ...