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05-30-2025 IMPACT If the Amazon rainforest dried out, here’s what would happen A decades-long project set out to simulate a future in which the changing climate could deplete the Amazon of rainfall.
Brazil is facing criticism for cutting down thousands of trees in the Amazon rainforest to build a road for the COP30 climate summit. Edited by: Nikhil Pandey World News Mar 13, 2025 08:48 am IST ...
Climate Thousands of acres of Amazon rainforest cleared for climate summit highway in Brazil The UN Climate Change Conference, or COP30, will be held in Belém, Brazil in November ...
“The fires and drought experienced in 2024 across the Amazon rainforest could be ominous indicators that we are reaching the long-feared ecological tipping point,” said Andrew Miller, advocacy ...
After an aerial tour to view the ecosystems and deforestation, Biden said he was proud to visit the region. He signed a U.S. proclamation designating Nov. 17 as International Conservation Day.
MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — Speaking from the Amazon rainforest, President Joe Biden declared Sunday that there’s no going back in America’s “clean energy revolution” even as the incoming ...
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.
MANAUS, Brazil — President Joe Biden stopped Sunday in this city in the heart of the rainforest, marking the first time a sitting U.S. president has visited the Amazon, as he sought to emphasize ...
Aerial view of an illegal fire in the Amazon rainforest on the banks of the BR-230 (Transamazon Highway), near the city of Labrea, Amazonas state, northern Brazil, Sept. 4, 2024.
The Amazon rainforest is facing pressures that might tip it into large-scale ecosystem collapse as soon as 2050, according to new research, warning of dire consequences for the region and the world.
SAO PAULO, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Climate change is the main culprit for a record drought in the Amazon rainforest that has drained rivers, killed endangered dolphins and upended life for millions of ...