The Amazon has proven resilient to natural changes in the climate for 65 million years, but deforestation and the human-caused climate crisis have brought new levels of stress and could cause a ...

05-30-2025 IMPACT If the Amazon rainforest dried out, here’s what would happen A decades-long project set out to simulate a future in which the changing climate could deplete the Amazon of rainfall.

The Amazon rainforest covers nearly 6 million square kilometres of South America, with a majority of the rainforest falling within Brazil’s borders. Significant deforestation reportedly led to ...

Nearly 40% of the areas of the Amazon rainforest most critical to curbing climate change have not been granted special government protection, as either nature or indigenous reserves, according to ...

Nanoparticle bursts over the Amazon rainforest Rainfall induces bursts of natural nanoparticles that can form clouds and further precipitation over the Amazon rainforest Date: November 8, 2024 ...

The rainforest stores a vast amount of carbon dioxide, a key greenhouse gas driving climate change. According to one study, the Amazon holds the equivalent of two years of global carbon emissions.

The eastern Amazon will stay dry over the next 15 days, with little or no rain in parts of Mato Grosso, Para and Tocantins where fires are up 54% to 161% compared with last year.

The Amazon is the world’s largest rainforest – spanning 6.9 million square kilometres (2.72 million square miles) across nine countries and covering around 40% of the South American continent.

In January, wildfires burned almost 4,000 square miles of the Brazilian Amazon, an almost fourfold increase from the same month last year, according to Mapbiomas, a collective of climate-focused ...

The Amazon rainforest is on course to reach a crucial tipping point as soon as 2050, with devastating consequences the world’s ability to tackle climate change, a study shows.