A decades-long project set out to simulate a future in which the changing climate could deplete the Amazon of rainfall.

The team created maps to illustrate their findings. In the southern reaches of the Amazon rainforest, mostly over rock formations that geologists call the Brazilian Shield -- with relatively ...

As a result, Bolivia lost 14,800 square kilometres of forest in 2024, the second-most of any country, up 200% from 2023. It ...

to map out where the rainforest is most likely to transform. The regional profiles that emerged showed that a tenth of the Amazon was highly vulnerable to transforming into grasslands or degraded ...

Map showing areas of the Amazon with high aboveground carbon and ... that used lasers to get a three dimensional picture of the forest and combined it with machine-learning models.

Contemporaneous maps and historical records showed that ... It was also helping to rewrite the human history of the forest. An Amazon Revealed researcher moves through the forest at night in ...

Archaeologists have discovered a lost colonial city in the Amazon rainforest that dates back to the 18th century. The Portuguese settlement previously appeared on some maps but its exact location ...

The new findings promise to help redraw the map of human habitation in the ... clue to how early Amazonians husbanded the rainforest. While the Amazon is home to some 16,000 tree species, a ...

WASHINGTON — Archaeologists have uncovered a cluster of lost cities in the Amazon rainforest that were home to at least 10,000 farmers around 2,000 years ago. A series of earthen mounds and ...

The Amazon rainforest is seen from a plane flying from ... to generate 3D models of a given landscape. This method can map the topography of the land while also revealing hidden man-made features ...