Record-Breaking Carbon Emissions Transform the Amazon from Guardian to Threat The Amazon rainforest experienced its most ...

Learn why the Amazon is critical for our planet and how WWF is working to protect its forests, rivers, and wildlife from growing threats.

There are thousands of tree species in the Amazon rainforest, many of which grow to between 80 and 100 feet tall, developing huge networks of branches that make up the canopy layer. A few trees grow ...

A new study by researchers at the European Commission's Joint Research Center reveals that the Amazon rainforest has just undergone its most devastating forest fire season in over two decades, which ...

Human influence across centuries continues to define biodiversity and carbon storage in the world's largest rainforest, ...

Global warming may be interacting with regional rainfall and deforestation to accelerate forest loss in the Amazon, pushing it towards partial or total collapse. New research has identified the ...

I recently contributed a section on how to communicate about the Amazon for the “Amazonia in Danger” report, a collection of ...

The Amazon forest is losing its role as a carbon sink. Satellites reveal what this means for climate action worldwide.

BELEM, Brazil, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Brazil insisted on hosting this year's COP30 climate summit in the Amazonian city of Belem ...

Soot from forest fires in the Amazon might play a role in the melting of faraway ice in Antarctica. For decades, scientists have known that black carbon from burning fossil fuels or forests ...

A Nov. 17 Instagram video (direct link, archive link) shows President Joe Biden standing behind a lectern in a rainforest then turning and walking away. "YES, THIS JUST HAPPENED," the post's caption ...