2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change. A warming climate fed ...

Despite a drop in the size of deforested areas, the number of wildfires in the region increased by more than 30 percent.

Around two-thirds of the Amazon rainforest could shift into degraded forest or savanna-like ecosystems at 1.5–1.9°C of global ...

Gold rush fuels Amazon deforestation and mercury poisoning in Brazil’s protected areas - Gold prices have surged in recent years, sparking a mining rush in the Amazon that accelerates deforestation an ...

The Amazon rainforest could face a renewed surge of deforestation as efforts grow to overturn a long-standing ban that has protected it. Tipping Point by Luke Jerram combine smokes, lights and sound ...

Brazil is on track to record its lowest Amazon deforestation rates since 2012. Despite this major accomplishment, experts warn that forest degradation, driven by wildfires, logging and drought, is ...

By Sean Mowbray Deforestation coupled with climate change is rapidly pushing the Amazon Rainforest toward a perilous tipping point that could come much sooner than previously thought. That’s the ...