Did you know the Amazon rainforest is called the “lungs of the Earth”? It covers over 2.5 million square miles. It’s home to ...

A new LMU study estimates that land use changes in conjunction with climate change could lead to the loss of up to 38% of the ...

As technology advances and becomes more sophisticated, researchers are able to view the world differently, revealing aspects of it that have previously gone unnoticed. This form of remote sensing uses ...

A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser, and the temperature rises in places sunlight hits the ground. This is what ...

The launch of the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) at the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil underscores how the Amazon Forest can be part of the climate solution. There’s another Amazon, ...

The Amazon rainforest is moving toward a climate similar to conditions from 10 to 40 million years ago, when global ...

The Amazon rainforest currently has a few days or weeks of hot drought conditions per year, but researchers say this could ...

Every time humans cut into the Amazon rainforest or burn or destroy parts of it, they’re making people sick. It’s an idea Indigenous people have lived by for thousands of years. Now a new study in the ...

Human influence across centuries continues to define biodiversity and carbon storage in the world's largest rainforest, according to a new international study published in the Proceedings of the ...

For roughly 65 million years, the forests of the Amazon were resilient to changes in the climate. But that is changing rapidly, as the region is exposed to unprecedented stress from global warming, ...

President Biden made a historic visit to the Amazon rainforest Sunday to view the Amazon River and the ongoing effects of climate change. With his visit Sunday, Biden became the first sitting American ...

The giants of the Amazon are getting even bigger. A sweeping, new study has found the rainforest’s largest trees are not only holding their ground, but they’re thriving — growing, multiplying in ...