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 ...

Trees of all sizes across the Amazon rainforest are getting fatter due to climate change, a new study shows. Rising carbon dioxide (CO 2) concentrations in the atmosphere have created a more ...

Large parts of the Amazon’s iconic rainforest are nearing an irreversible “tipping point” and collapse in less than 30 years due to deforestation and climate change, scientists warn in a new paper ...

“A major question is whether a large-scale collapse of the Amazon forest system could actually happen within the twenty-first century.” (Source: Bernardo M. Flores, et al, Critical Transitions in the ...

CAXIUANA NATIONAL FOREST – A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser and the temperature rises in places sunlight hits ...

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

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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 ...

People thought she was crazy when Carminha Maria Missio and her family bought what was considered "sterile" land in the Brazilian savanna to farm soybeans, she says. Missio, a beaming grandmother ...