El Niño is fueling a dangerous cascade of wildfires across the tropics, with the Amazon rainforest now experiencing ...

Under Brazil’s new far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, the destruction of the Amazon Rainforest has rapidly escalated reaching the point where three football fields of forest are being destroyed ...

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro contributed to deforestation through statements opposing forest conservation, according to an international study led by the University of Bonn. The study ...

NASA satellite imagery reveals massive Amazon rainforest fires as El Niño-driven drought fuels dangerous conditions across Brazil.

Unlike a tornado or thunderstorm that can deliver destruction in minutes, El Niño exerts its influence over many months. This ...

The Amazon rainforest climate regulates the health of our entire planet. Stretching across six million square kilometres, ...

Aerial view of the village of Ita'aka, in the Koatinemo Indigenous Land in the Amazon rainforest, about 45 miles from Altamira, Para State, Brazil, taken on June 11, 2025. CARLOS FABAL CARLOS ...

July 11 (UPI) --Deforestation of Brazil's Amazon rainforest has fallen to its lowest levels in more than a decade, officials said this week. Satellite surveys show a 37% decrease in the number of ...

Clear-cut swaths of the Amazon rain forest in Quiandeua, Brazil, are often planted with manioc, or cassava, a shrub grown for ...

The Amazon Rainforest is approaching a dangerous threshold. Scientists warn that continued deforestation could push the world’s largest rainforest past a tipping point, transforming it into a degraded ...

The road to hell is paved. Whenever a dirt track in Brazil’s Amazon jungle is overlaid with asphalt, it takes little time for the emerald rainforest surrounding it to disappear in a suffocating plume ...