Scientists warn that “flying rivers” — invisible streams of moisture that carry rain from the Atlantic Ocean westward across ...

The already large trees of the Amazon rainforest are getting bigger on average, a new study found. The finding indicates a ...

Local deforestation reduces rainfall in the Amazon rainforest wheres global climate change is the main factor for the ...

Experts often warn about the “tipping point” for the Amazon, a scenario in which the rainforest collapses into a drier, less ...

"We're not seeing signs of them dying off," one of the study's lead authors told NBC News. "They are increasing in size and ...

2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change. A warming climate fed ...

Flying rivers, air currents carrying moisture from the Atlantic across South America, are being disrupted by deforestation, ...

For decades, scientists feared the Amazon rainforest was teetering on the edge — increasingly stressed by rising temperatures ...

In Brazil’s southern Amazonian region, where the notorious “arc of deforestation” has been expanding since the 1970s, forest loss is reshaping the region’s atmospheric water cycle. As the Amazon ...

Amazon’s biggest trees grow stronger and store more carbon, but deforestation threatens this crucial climate buffer ...

Smoke rises from a fire near a logging area in the Transamazonica highway region, in the municipality of Humaita, Amazonas state, Brazil, Sept. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros, File) AGUA CLARA, ...