The sights and sounds of the Amazon rainforest come alive in this soothing and relaxing video that makes you feel you are in the heart of the world’s most biodiverse rainforest. The team at the Amazon ...

The Amazon Rainforest, where next year’s COP30 climate summit will be hosted, is reeling from two consecutive years of severe drought, with major rivers at record lows, leading to water shortages and ...

Deforestation is having a more devastating effect on the Amazon rainforest than earlier data suggested. While cutting down large swaths of trees destroys vital habitats, it also harms the region's ...

The Amazon, often called the "lungs of the planet," is the world's largest tropical forest, playing a crucial role in the global climate system due to its vast carbon storage. While it is typically ...

The Amazon rainforest is a massive area, twice the size of India and sprawling across eight countries and one territory. It's a crucial carbon sink for the climate, has about 20% of the world’s ...

Tracy and I on our hike through the rainforest (Tapajós National Forest in Brazil). Tracy is wearing one of the blue ponchos provided by The Nature Conservancy to protect from the heavy rain that ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that's a critical counterweight to climate change.

SAO PAULO, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Climate change is the main culprit for a record drought in the Amazon rainforest that has drained rivers, killed endangered dolphins and upended life for millions of ...

Stretching across 2.6 million square miles and eight countries and filled with more than 3 million species of plants and animals, the Amazon rainforest is a wild and wonderful place. There are ...

The eight countries that comprise the Amazon River basin agreed on several initiatives to curtail deforestation in the world’s largest and most important rainforest. By Manuela Andreoni and Max Bearak ...

Hundreds of square miles of the rainforest have burned as countries in the region battle a record number of fires fueled by extreme weather. By Ana Ionova and Manuela Andreoni Ana Ionova reported from ...