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

Brazil insisted on hosting this year's COP30 climate summit in the Amazonian city of Belem to put rainforests at the heart of ...

In the Amazon forest, human disturbances are now changing which trees grow, how they work, and how deep their evolutionary ...

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

The first time Virgilio Viana saw the Amazon up close, he was a 16-year-old with a backpack, two school friends and very ...

As we broadcast from the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, we are joined by one of Brazil’s most prominent scientists, ...

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

BOGOTA, Colombia — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rain forest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change. A ...

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

ALTAMIRA, Brazil – If much of the Amazon forest is to wither away, this is the town where that end was foretold. During its campaign to develop the region, Brazil’s former military dictatorship chose ...

Drought-stricken regions of the Amazon forest grew particularly vigorously during the 2005 drought, according to new research. The counterintuitive finding contradicts a prominent global climate model ...