How long would it take for the world's largest rainforest to burn down? If we don't do anything to stop it, we'll soon find out. The Amazon rainforest creates 20% of the Earth's oxygen. It's home to ...

A new study of the Amazon rainforest has found the region is shifting toward a 'hypertropical' state as droughts become ...

An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. After five ...

The Amazon’s worst fire season in decades is turning the rainforest into a massive carbon emitter.

The drought outlook is dire for the Amazon region, and several of its rivers were already critically low by early August for this time of year, the Associated Press reported. Amazon Cooperation Treaty ...

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 Amazonian rainforest isthe planet’s respiratory system–the more than 1 billion acres of trees help regulate the climate and produce more than 20% of the Earth’s oxygen. And that’s why one of the ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). Beyond the bow of my kayak, the world has turned upside down. Half-submerged tree trunks meet their reflections and branch into twin ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 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.

This year’s annual UN climate conference COP30 with 50,000 expected attendees held in Belém, Brazil is one-upping the past two COPs (UN Conference of the Parties) that were held by, and dictated by, ...

Video clip authentically shows U.S. President Joe Biden wandering off into the Amazon rainforest on an unmarked pathway. Online users and publishers falsely claimed a video showed Biden walking into ...