The health of the Amazon forest and river are intertwined. By storing carbon, the forest can be a key part of climate solutions but plans for expanding hydropower could undermine that climate solution ...

Did you know the Amazon rainforest is called the “lungs of the Earth”? It covers over 2.5 million square miles. It’s home to ...

In the field, UBC Okanagan’s Dr. Magali Nehemy traces how a forest built to recycle rain is running on thinner margins ...

In just under a year from now, the world will turn to Belém, Brazil, a city on the edge of the Amazon Rainforest, for the ...

A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser, and the temperature rises in places sunlight hits the ground. This is what ...

CAXIUANA NATIONAL FOREST, Brazil (AP) — A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser and the temperature rises in places ...

As technology advances and becomes more sophisticated, researchers are able to view the world differently, revealing aspects of it that have previously gone unnoticed. This form of remote sensing uses ...

A new LMU study estimates that land use changes in conjunction with climate change could lead to the loss of up to 38 percent of the Amazon ...

Every time humans cut into the Amazon rainforest or burn or destroy parts of it, they’re making people sick. It’s an idea Indigenous people have lived by for thousands of years. Now a new study in the ...

The giants of the Amazon are getting even bigger. A sweeping, new study has found the rainforest’s largest trees are not only holding their ground, but they’re thriving — growing, multiplying in ...

For roughly 65 million years, the forests of the Amazon were resilient to changes in the climate. But that is changing rapidly, as the region is exposed to unprecedented stress from global warming, ...

President Biden made a historic visit to the Amazon rainforest Sunday to view the Amazon River and the ongoing effects of climate change. With his visit Sunday, Biden became the first sitting American ...