In Brazil’s Amazon, people are trapped in a vicious cycle in which deforestation begets poverty, and poverty begets deforestation. Already, more than a fifth of the country’s rainforest has ...

“The Amazon is massive and maintains its own water cycle,” said Ernesto Alvarado, a research associate professor at the University of Washington’s School of Environmental and Forest Sciences ...

The Amazon is an immense region that includes 1.4 billion densely forested acres and is home to 10% of the Earth's recorded species. It's also in serious danger. According to a new study published ...

As global temperatures rise and the Amazon grapples with deforestation, the chances for extreme climate events that could disrupt this cycle increase. The Amazon region is home to 47 million people.