Previous strong El Niños have tested the Amazon’s limits, causing lasting damage on top of the destruction wrought by deforestation and climate change. El Niño-related droughts fueled rampant ...

The Amazon basin houses over three million species in its rainforest ecosystem, with over 2,500 tree species creating and sustaining this vibrant environment. One in ten known species in the world ...

A new study by researchers at the European Commission's Joint Research Center reveals that the Amazon rainforest has just undergone its most devastating forest fire season in over two decades, which ...

Every day, the Amazon releases billions of tons of water into the atmosphere that are carried by winds toward other regions ...

CALI, Colombia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ONE AMAZON has announced the launch of the world’s first Internet of Forests (IoF™), a groundbreaking initiative designed to digitally monitor and protect the Amazon ...

The Amazon Rainforest stretches across a vast region of South America and contains the world’s largest tropical rainforest ...

For years, the Amazon rainforest has been being cleared. The concern is that this unique ecosystem could collapse. However, Lula da Silva’s election as president brought hope. He announced that he ...

Climate change, deforestation and other human threats are driving the Amazon towards the limits of survival. Researchers are racing to chart its future. The Pulitzer Center in Washington DC supported ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Tropical forests actively generate rainfall by releasing moisture into the atmosphere, with each square meter producing hundreds of liters of rain ...

For years, scientists have been using a method called "temporal autocorrelation (TAC)" to measure forest resilience using ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Large ecosystems such as the Amazon rainforest and coral reefs could collapse faster than scientists had previously assumed, according to a study published on Tuesday. Researchers ...