The Amazon Basin lost about 27,000 square kilometers of forest each year from 2001 to 2016. By 2021, about 17% of the basin ...

The Amazon is one of the planet’s last great wildernesses, stretching across nine countries in South America. It has been a ...

the basin witnesses both humid and rainy climate throughout the year. Weather during the day and night is hot. The humidity remains high throughout the day and night. The vegetation of the Amazon ...

Researchers found that between 2002 and 2015, a 3.2% reduction in Brazilian forest cover led to a 5.4% reduction in ...

BELEM, Brazil -- In the run-up to the annual U.N. climate conference, set to take place in Brazil’s Amazon in November, the construction of a road is drawing attention, with critics arguing it will ...

particularly in middle-elevation areas on the edges of the Amazon Basin, according to a Washington Post analysis of projected climate data. Flooding can turn these communities into hotbeds of ...

Recent research found that climate extremes last year wrought “havoc” on the global water cycle, contributing to “crippling droughts” in the Amazon Basin and southern Africa. The West has ...

The Amazon and Congo Basin, the world’s largest tropical rainforests, are vital for climate resilience, biodiversity and global emissions reduction. But they face growing threats from deforestation ...

In the Amazon basin, home to one of the greatest diversities ... important when considering the impact scenarios predicted by climate change." Dr Santiago Benites de Pádua, a veterinarian and ...