Researchers caution that the Amazon rainforest could disappear in the next hundred years, due to the combined effects of ...

The Amazon is the world's largest rainforest, but it's shrinking. Around 17% of the Amazon has been destroyed, due in large part to deforestation, per Time Magazine.

Scientists reveal what would happen if the Amazon rainforest dried out When trees die from drought, they release carbon, accelerating global warming Fabiano Maisonnave Thursday 29 May 2025 13:57 BST ...

The rainforest in the Amazon basin transpires vast amounts of gaseous isoprene. Until now, it was assumed that this molecule is not transported far up into the atmosphere, as it rapidly declines ...

The rich plant life that makes up the Amazon rainforest contributes a significant amount of water vapour to Earth’s atmosphere. A recent study found that extensive deforestation here has caused ...

The Amazon rainforest is disappearing quickly — and threatening Indigenous people who live there June 20, 2022 by Félix Bhérer-Magnan, Étudiant au doctorat en science politique, Université Laval ...

The study, of 321 plots in parts of the Amazon untouched by human activities, estimated the net amount of carbon dioxide absorbed by the forest had fallen by 30 per cent, to 1.4 billion tonnes a ...

The Amazon's trees absorb and store a massive amount of carbon from the atmosphere, making it a huge asset in the fight against climate change. Until very recently, every year it absorbed as much ...

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 ...