Lightning-laced micro-storms may fell more rainforest giants than dryness or heat, forcing a rethink of forest-management playbooks.

Historic forest fires in Brazil last year scorched through an area larger than the size of Italy, recording a burned area ...

New research shows climate change may be overloading the Amazon's tree canopy, disrupting photosynthesis and signaling forest ...

The world’s hottest rainforest is located not in the Amazon or anywhere else you might expect, but inside Biosphere 2, the experimental scientific research facility in the desert outside Tucson ...

If tropical rainforests are the lungs of the Earth, then 2024 was a year of respiratory failure. Fires, fueled by climate ...

The Amazon Rainforest, the largest tropical rainforest on Earth, is a treasure trove of biodiversity, home to millions of species, many still undiscovered. From the vibrant morpho butterflies to the ...

The Amazon Rainforest, the world's largest tropical rainforest, is home to some of the most extraordinary and diverse ...

The state of tropical rainforests differs from one continent to the next. African forests are seeing more fire than other places, while the Amazon is seeing more water loss than Asian forests.

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate ...

Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon — home to the largest swath of this rainforest — dropped 30.6% compared to the previous year, the lowest level of destruction in nine years.

FILE - Aerial image of an area of deforested Amazon rainforest covered in smoke from an illegal fire in the municipality of Cujubim, Rondonia State, northern Brazil, Aug. 20, 2024.