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.

Rainforests, vital ecosystems supporting over half of Earth's species, play a crucial role in global climate regulation. This ...

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 ...

Every time humans cut into the Amazon rainforest or burn or destroy parts of it, they’re making people sick. It’s an idea Indigenous people have lived by for thousands of years. Now a new study in the ...

As we broadcast from the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, we are joined by one of Brazil’s most prominent scientists, ...

I recently contributed a section on how to communicate about the Amazon for the “Amazonia in Danger” report, a collection of ...

Explore ten ancient forests that still survive today. Discover their age, biodiversity and global importance in this list of ...