How Amazon forest loss may affect water—and climate—far away A surge in deforestation under Brazil's president could "tip" the Amazon, affecting weather and water supplies—in Brazil and beyond.

New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon through our planet’s most precious and remote ecosystems ...

Hélio Ferreira Conde lives in the northwestern Brazilian state of Acre, around 60 kilometres from the municipality of Xapuri. His land is accessible only by car, followed by another smaller car (to ...

The executive said that Amazon has more than 1,000 generative AI services and applications in progress or built, but that figure is a “small fraction” of what it plans to build.

Frequent forest fires and agricultural expansion are degrading soil health in the southern Brazilian Amazon. This results in lasting damage to carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) stocks, as well as to the ...

The Amazon Rainforest is home to some of the most exotic and beautiful animal life on the planet. Recently, scientists have discovered another rainforest resident deep within Brazil’s palm-dense ...

The Amazon Rainforest, the largest tropical rainforest in the world, is home to a remarkable range of unique and colorful wildlife, including extraordinary amphibians like the vibrant red-eyed ...

Venture into the Amazon Wilderness, the largest tropical rainforest in the world, where the wildest creatures and most unique ecosystems thrive. This documentary showcases the incredible ...

Climate data non-profit CTrees has published what it says is the most detailed canopy height map of the Amazon rainforest to date, providing researchers and conservationists with a powerful new tool ...

Former U.S. Interior Bruce Babbitt, who sits on the board of the nonprofit Amazon Conservation, said in a statement that the bill “will lead to massive destruction of the Amazon rainforest.

A record fire season in Brazil last year caused the rate of deforestation to accelerate, in a blow to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's pledge to protect the Amazon rainforest, official ...