While the loss of the rainforest would be terrible for many reasons locally, it would also have a big impact on the whole ...

Trees in the Peruvian Amazon are silently preserving the history of human activity, including the destructive impacts of gold ...

Scientists warn that “flying rivers” — invisible streams of moisture that carry rain from the Atlantic Ocean westward across the Amazon — are weakening as deforestation and climate ...

A portion of Amazonian lowland rainforest – areas critical to absorbing carbon dioxide and buffering climate change – may morph over time into dry, grassy savannas, according to a Rutgers-led study.

A report warns that coral reefs may have reached their tipping point, and ice sheets, ocean currents and the Amazon are at ...

Fisher Stevens, who produced the 'We Are Guardians' documentary about the Amazon rainforest destruction, says these stories ...

Brazilian farmers are lobbying to roll back deforestation restrictions in order to sell more soybeans to the huge Chinese ...

The snakes catch tree-dwelling prey, from small lizards and birds to insects, amphibians and some small mammals, according to the study. The injured snake found at the mine site measured over 6 feet ...

Scientists have discovered a new wasp species in the Amazon rain forests of Peru. The new wasp genus called amazonica Capitojoppa is one of several species unknown to science which were discovered in ...

As the planet warms, it risks crossing catastrophic tipping points: thresholds where Earth systems, such as ice sheets and ...