Amazon is facing a climate that has not been experienced in millions of years, according to a study published in the journal Nature. Referred to as "hypertropical," the climate exhibits droughts that ...

In the thick green depths of the Amazon, long thought to be untouched wilderness, a stunning discovery has emerged. For decades, the rainforest was seen as too hostile for ancient urban life. But that ...

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A new study reveals that the impact humans are having on the Amazon rainforest is so profound it is even changing the evolutionary history and functionality of the forests. As the world gathers at ...

The launch of the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) at the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil underscores how the Amazon Forest can be part of the climate solution. There’s another Amazon, ...

The Amazon forest is Earth’s most biodiverse terrestrial ecosystem (e.g., ref. 1) and is essential in regulating much of the global climate system 2,3. However, an increasing number of studies suggest ...

Global climate temperature is a key factor in the survival of the Amazon rainforest, indeed the survival of humans, civilization and the Earth. According to Copernicus, the European Union’s Earth ...

Deforestation of 22-28% of the Amazon Rainforest, coupled with 1.5-1.9°C of global warming, could trigger a widespread shift of the Amazon Rainforest to degraded forest and savanna grassland ...

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 ...

The Amazon could be racing closer to a calamitous tipping point that would transform the lush rainforest into a drier savanna within a century, researchers warn. This massive shift could be triggered ...