Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon — home to the largest swath of this rainforest — dropped 30.6% compared to the previous year, the lowest level of destruction in nine years.

The Amazon Rainforest is approaching a "tipping point" beyond which it would become barren Droughts and logging have wreaked havoc on the rainforest often called the "world's lungs," scientists say.

The Amazon rainforest, in the Amazonas state in Brazil, is losing resilience, according to a study in the journal Nature Climate Change. (Dado Galdieri/Bloomberg News) ...

The Amazon Rainforest is facing accelerating threats from deforestation, illegal mining, and climate change jeopardizing one ...

Parts of the Amazon rainforest are now emitting more carbon dioxide than they absorb, raising fears of the potentially devastating impact on its fragile ecosystems and a further worsening of the ...

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 rainforest has many layers There are thousands of tree species in the Amazon rainforest, many of which grow to between 80 and 100 feet tall, developing huge networks of branches that make up the ...

Topline. South America's dense Amazon rainforest has long served as one of the planet's primary carbon-absorbing regions, but a new study has found human interference is causing a large part of ...

The Amazon has lost between 15% and 17% of its trees, and at current deforestation rates, the rainforest could cross Nobre’s threshold in 15 to 30 years. “We are almost seeing the tipping ...

The Amazon rainforest is "teetering on the edge" of an irreversible threshold that would turn it into a savanna, a group of top scientists warn.; That's because humans have been cutting and ...

The Amazon rainforest is the world’s largest tropical rainforest and covers much of northwestern Brazil, functioning as Earth’s "air conditioner," as it helps regulate the planet’s global ...

Why the Amazon could be at risk of "collapsing" 04:16 French President Emmanuel Macron wants the wildfires raging in the Amazon rainforest to be on the agenda at this weekend's G-7 summit.