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 ...

More than a third of the Amazon rainforest is struggling to recover from drought, according to a new study that warns of a “critical slowing down” of this globally important ecosystem.

Each dry season, farmers carve up and burn hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of acres in one of the world’s largest ...

One-third of the Amazon rainforest has been degraded by a combination of human activity and drought, according to a scientific report carried this week by the journal Science. The study released ...

Historically low water levels have affected hundreds of thousands of people and wildlife across Brazil’s Amazon and, with experts predicting the drought could last until early 2024, the problems ...

Home to the largest river in the world by volume, the Amazon, Brazil holds about 12% of global freshwater reserves. As a ...

More than one third of the Amazon rainforest may have been degraded by human activity and drought, researchers said on Thursday, and action is needed to protect the critically important ecosystem.

In just under a year from now, the world will turn to Belém, Brazil, a city on the edge of the Amazon Rainforest, for the ...

The amendment eliminates the requirement that landowners or companies get state authorization before converting forested land ...

In addition, wide-scale deforestation in the Amazon rainforest is accelerating the rate of drought, as the trees hold moisture which is released back into the atmosphere, in addition to absorbing ...

The Amazon rainforest experienced a historic drought from June to November 2023, driven by low rainfall and persistent high temperatures.

More than 62,000 sq km of rainforest has burned in Brazil, this year alone. The current drought is concerning because it comes relatively early in the Amazon's dry season. Investigation by Global ...