An estimated 5,000 square miles of Amazon rainforest – a third of the size of Switzerland – was destroyed in 2020-21, according to data from Brazil’s National Institute of Space Research.

The Amazon has survived changes in the climate for 65 million years. Now it’s heading for collapse, a study says By Rosa Rahimi, CNN 4 minute read Published 11:00 AM EST, Wed February 14, 2024 ...

The Amazon rainforest may be able to survive long-term drought caused by climate change but could experience “profound changes” including the death of large trees and a diminished ability to ...

A major two-day Amazon Summit opens in Belem on Aug. 8, 2023. Governments of multiple countries are set to discuss strategies to save the rainforest.

As plants in the Amazon rainforest die off, huge amounts of carbon are released – a key signal that these losses may happen is temperature swings between seasons By Alex Wilkins 12 April 2022 ...

The Amazon rainforest is a unique region where climatologists have studied the effects of warming and deforestation for decades. With the global climate crisis becoming more evident, a new study is ...

The research, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, examined satellite data on the amount of vegetation in more than 6,000 grid cells across the untouched Amazon from 1991 to 2016.

The world’s largest river and rainforest was parched by extreme temperatures last year that would have been highly unlikely without climate change, scientists said. By Manuela Andreoni Reporting ...

Currently, the Amazonian forests act as an important sink for carbon dioxide (CO 2), a gas emitted mainly from the burning of fossil fuels coal, oil and natural gas, and the major driver of global ...