Step into the untamed heart of the Amazon Rainforest, where nature thrives in its most raw, powerful, and breathtaking form.

Covering more than 2 million square miles in South America, the world's biggest tropical rainforest hides lots of scary ...

Viewed from space, the Amazon rainforest doesn’t look like an ecosystem on the brink. Clouds still coalesce from the breath of some 390 billion trees. Rivers snake their way through what appears ...

Dave Boyer heads to Brazil to explore the largest tropical rainforest on Earth. It’s a place of breathtaking beauty and constant sensory stimulation. But here, just one step can lead to calamity. When ...

The Amazon rainforest lost an estimated 5 million acres in 2020, an area roughly the size of Israel, according to a recent report on the region. Experts warn that unchecked deforestation in the ...

The Amazon rainforest is a vast tract of largely untamed jungle that is Earth’s most biodiverse region, filled with plants and trees and teeming with animals of all types and sizes — including ...

The Amazon is also taking longer to recover from perturbations like weather events, ... But in the rainforest’s southeast, they’re getting glimpses of what that point might look like.

To Save the Amazon Rainforest, Scientists Look for Clues in Its Past Published Feb 02, 2024 at 12:04 PM EST Updated Feb 02, 2024 at 2:34 PM EST ...

Large swathes of Amazon rainforest that appear healthy may be on the brink of mass dieback—when a plant starts to die beginning at the tips of its roots or leaves—due to deforestation and ...

Less than a year into his term, that is already happening. Brazil’s part of the Amazon lost more than 1,330 square miles of forest cover in the first half of 2019, a 39 percent increase over the ...

Portions of the Amazon rainforest are now releasing more carbon dioxide than they absorb, disrupting an important balancing act that signals a worsening of the climate crisis, according to a new ...