Here's the list of the largest rainforests in the world, including the 5.5 million km² Amazon. Learn why the Amazon and Congo ...

The Amazon rainforest, often described as the lungs of the planet, is teeming with life. Thousands of Amazonian land ...

The degradation of the vast Congo Basin, known as the world’s “second lung”, is taking a toll across the African continent ...

Spanning nine nations and covering more than 5.5 million square kilometers—roughly the size of the continental United ...

Just a stone’s throw from the venue for COP30, large swaths of the rainforest continue to be destroyed for farms and mines ...

Carlos Nobre, a professor at the University of Sao Paulo with decades of expertise on the Amazon, warned early in his address ...

The Brazilian academic believes that the tipping point he has warned of for decades is ‘much closer’ — but he retains his ...

Earth's vital rainforests, crucial for oxygen production and climate regulation, face severe threats from deforestation and ...

"COP30 is a signal of hope, but we cannot fool ourselves. The Amazon, like Pope Francis said in Puerto Maldonado [in 2018], ...

The Amazon is the largest tropical forest in the world, covering 5.5 million square kilometers (2.1 million square miles), an ecological treasure threatened by escalating deforestation and forest ...

We consider the Amazon to be the lungs of the world, but it is much more than that. Apart from containing the densest and ...

In a day recognizing both the gravity of climate change and celebrating humanity's ability to overcome challenges through confidence and hope, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation awarded its Hilton ...