The Amazon’s worst fire season in decades is turning the rainforest into a massive carbon emitter.

The Amazon represents over half of the total area of remaining rainforest on Earth. The majority of the rainforest is in Brazil, but its lush, emerald green canopy also reaches into Peru and Colombia.

The tropical rainforest of the Congo basin is the world’s second-largest. (The Amazon is slightly bigger, but far better studied.) Via the Congo river, water drains into the Atlantic largely from six ...

A new LMU study estimates that land use changes in conjunction with climate change could lead to the loss of up to 38% of the ...

Due to climate change, the Amazon is experiencing longer dry seasons and droughts, which could edge it into a new climate known as the “hypertropics.” Crossing this biome threshold would come with ...

The Amazon rainforest currently has a few days or weeks of hot drought conditions per year, but researchers say this could ...

The launch of the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) at the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil underscores how the Amazon Forest can be part of the climate solution. There’s another Amazon, ...

After four decades of research, a scientist returns to the Amazon in an effort to change the behavior that has led to years of environmental crisis. After four decades of research, a scientist returns ...

A new study reveals that the impact humans are having on the Amazon rainforest is so profound it is even changing the evolutionary history and functionality of the forests. As the world gathers at ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Many stories about the Amazon read like elegies. Drought, smoke, lawlessness—each headline darker than the last. I’m guilty of this at times. The ...

The Amazon saw its worst wildfire season in decades in 2024. New research examines the consequences. Credit: CSU/CIRA & NOAA Wildfires in the rainy, humid Amazon might once have seemed unlikely, but ...

Policy analysts and researchers from the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM) talk about collecting data to monitor and manage wildfires in the western Brazilian state of Acre at a meeting ...