Prologue Global climate temperature is a key factor in the survival of the Amazon rainforest, indeed the survival of humans, civilization and the Earth.

Researchers examined the combined effects of tree loss and global warming in an effort to better understand how and when an ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — The administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva frequently touts how it has sharply slowed deforestation in the Amazon, and indeed it has. When the next official ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — Human activity continues to expand ever further into wild areas, throwing ecology out of balance. But what begins as an environmental issue often evolves into a human problem ...

The study said that without additional deforestation, such large-scale drying of the Amazon would likely occur only at much ...

The study finds that at 22-28% deforestation combined with 1.51.9C of warming, the forest could lose its ability to sustain ...

Brazil is a custodian to two thirds of the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest. The biome is home to millions of Brazilians, including hundreds of Indigenous peoples and traditional communities, ...

The Amazon rainforest represents one of the planet’s most vital ecosystems, acting as a critical regulator of the global climate, a major carbon sink, and a ...

The Amazon rainforest has been degraded by a much greater extent than scientists previously believed with more than a third of remaining forest affected by humans, according to a new study published ...

With the support of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, essentially all of Brazil’s government outside of the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change is promoting actions that push us toward ...