Tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest are being cleared and paved over to build a new four-lane highway for, of all things, the upcoming COP30 climate summit in Brazil.

The Amazon Rainforest, the world's largest tropical rainforest, is home to some of the most extraordinary and diverse wildlife on the planet. From the colorful macaws and hummingbirds to the ...

The world’s rainforests are under siege. Climate change has driven the average temperature of the Amazon rainforest up by as much as 1.5 degrees Celsius. As a result of higher temperatures and ...

In the Amazon rainforest, ... The entire globe depends on the Amazon. The world's largest rainforest produces more than 20 percent of our oxygen and captures about 2.2 ... To create their maps, ...

The Amazon River Basin is the world’s largest rainforest, larger than the next two largest rainforests combined, the Congo Basin and Indonesia, and roughly the size of the forty-eight contiguous ...

The Brazilian government is preparing to host the world’s largest climate summit uniquely – by chopping down tens of ...

The Amazon rainforest is biologically the richest region on Earth, hosting about 25% of global biodiversity. The study was published Monday in the peer-reviewed British journal Nature Climate Change.

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Archaeologists have uncovered a cluster of lost cities in the Amazon rainforest that were home to at least 10,000 farmers about 2,000 years ago. Lost cities in Amazon that lasted 1,000 years are ...

Nation & World; The Amazon rainforest is the world’s carbon sink. Parts of it now release more carbon than can be absorbed. July 16, 2021 at 8:33 am . By . Rachel Pannett. The Washington Post.