The Amazon and Congo jungles are two of the world’s most renowned and ecologically significant rainforests, but despite their ...

In 2022, the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP) estimated that 13.2 percent of the Amazon rainforest biome has been lost, which is an area roughly one-tenth the size of the U.S.

The paper -- "Basin-wide variation in tree hydraulic safety margins predicts the carbon balance of Amazon forests" -- is published today (Wednesday, April 26. Tree doctors ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a cluster of lost cities in the Amazon rainforest that were home to at least 10,000 farmers about 2,000 years ago.

How the Amazon rainforest is likely to cope with the effect of future drought A major collaboration involving 80 scientists from Europe and South America has identified the regions of the Amazon ...

Since the 1980s, the Amazon Basin has been warming at an average of 0.27 degrees Celsius per decade. Some parts, including the forest’s central and southeast regions, have been warming even ...