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

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

Scientists warn that the Amazon rainforest is near its “tipping point” as more trees die. A study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, more than three-quarters of the Amazon has lost ...

Brazilian farmers want to end a ban on planting soya on cleared land, which critics say would spur deforestation.

The Amazon rainforest is one of the world's greatest natural resources, both in terms of the resources it contains and its role in producing oxygen and cleaning the world's air. The forest stores up ...

The famously verdant Amazon rainforest is in danger of transforming into a dry savannah as various environmental indicators, such as deforestation and climate change, are pushing the ecosystem to a ...

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

The consequences of climate tipping points are almost too big to imagine. The thought that, over the course of a few decades, ...