In 2004, an international team of researchers began setting fire to three 50-hectare plots of Amazon forest in Mato Grosso, ...

The Amazon rainforest responded to the most severe drought ever recorded in the basin with an unexpected defense mechanism.

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In the second part of their ‘Destination Anywhere’ chat, Melanie Oliveiro speaks with Singaporean wildlife photographer Dan ...

Brazil to invest $75 million in highway through Amazon and unveils environmental protection plan - Brazil’s government has ...

Brazil cut deforestation in the Amazon to its lowest level since 2019 in 2025, with tougher environmental enforcement helping ...

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The launch of the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) at the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil underscores how the Amazon Forest can be part of the climate solution. There’s another Amazon, ...

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In 2020, the Covid pandemic slowed down just about everything—save for deforestation of the Amazon. That year, Brazil lost almost 15 square miles of vegetation per day, equal to 24 trees every second.

An ambitious project about to get underway intends to see how the trees will respond to the CO2 levels of the future ...