The Amazon forest adapted to long dry conditions with fewer big trees and slower carbon uptake. Younger trees grew, balancing ...

Gold mining in the Amazon is devastating soil and water; combined with heat, water loss, and topsoil depletion, it's stalling ...

Fires could turn the Amazon rainforest into a desert as human activity and climate change threaten ‘lungs of the world’, ...

Gold mining in the Amazon removes so much water from the ground that it's too hot and dry for seedlings to survive.

Forests in the Peruvian Amazon aren't growing back after gold mining—not just because the soil is damaged by toxic metals, ...

A new study shows that even the most remote parts of the Amazon may not be safe from the impacts of the climate crisis.

Tackling monoculture and deforestation in the Amazon, Cuíca is using Brazilian chestnuts to make a plant-based milk that ...

A decades-long project set out to simulate a future in which the changing climate could deplete the Amazon of rainfall.

Nearly 17 million acres of tropical forest were destroyed last year, according to the University of Maryland's 2024 tree ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Get ready for several years of even more record-breaking heat that pushes Earth to more deadly, fiery and ...

At the PNC Women Run the Cities race in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, in early May, Smithe helped quench the thirst of ...