“The Amazon’s hydrological cycle is becoming more extreme,” co-author Roel Brienen of the University of Leeds said in a ...

As seen in the graph below, during Lula's years in office, between 2004 and 2012, Amazon deforestation — which refers to cutting down or clearing trees, often replacing them with farms or cattle ...

The Amazon Rainforest influences global agriculture by maintaining stable climate conditions. Its absence would lead to erratic weather patterns and reduced rainfall, affecting crop yields worldwide.

This is what 24 years of severe drought looks like in the world’s largest rainforest. But this patch of degraded forest, about the size of a soccer field, is a scientific experiment.

Frequent rainfall-induced new particle formation within the canopy in the Amazon rainforest. Nature Geoscience , 2024; DOI: 10.1038/s41561-024-01585-0 Cite This Page : ...

New research led by IIASA reveals a surprising link between two major climate-tipping elements: the Southern Amazon rainforest and the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). While the ...