A pledge from the Brazilian president to pave a road that runs through the Amazon rainforest is prompting concerns from ...

This year has been the worst for the Amazon rainforest in almost two decades. Although there has been a measured decline in ...

In the Eastern Amazon flooded forest, trees stay partly covered by water due to the rainy season that typically lasts from February to June. Photo is taken in early August when the water levels start ...

Nearly 40% of the Amazon's vital climate regions are unprotected, raising concerns about deforestation and the urgent need ...

Wildfires, storms, and selective logging as major drivers of Amazon rainforest carbon emissions, surpassing clear-cutting.

Cutting-edge machine-learning models have created one of the most detailed, high-resolution maps yet of aboveground carbon ...

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, after months of hedging on the issue, has committed his government to finishing ...

South America is being ravaged by fire from Brazil's Amazon rainforest through the world's largest wetlands to dry forests in ...

In the town of Manacapuru, near state capital Manaus, the drought has impacted navigation on the Solimoes River, which turns ...

FILE PHOTO: A view of a farm near a forest fire in the Amazon in an area of the Trans-Amazonian Highway BR230 in Labrea, Amazonas state, Brazil September 4, 2024. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly/File Photo ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Scientists agree that preserving the Amazon rainforest is vital to combating global warming, but new data on Wednesday indicate huge swathes of the jungle that are most vital ...