New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon ...

At the Aspen Ideas Festival, Fareed sits down with former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and former acting Attorney ...

Rainforests are among the most critical ecosystems on Earth. Home to roughly half of all terrestrial species, they provide ...

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 ...

Amazon Rainforest Cut Down for Climate Summit Highway Published Mar 12, 2025 at 10:37 AM EDT Updated Mar 12, 2025 at 11:35 AM EDT By Jordan King ...

It’s called the Cerrado, Portuguese for “closed,” and for nearly all of human history this vast tropical savanna in central Brazil seems to have been shut off from the rest of the world ...

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 change.

Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon — home to the largest swath of this rainforest — dropped 30.6 percent 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.

“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 ...

The rainforest in the Amazon basin transpires vast amounts of gaseous isoprene. Until now, it was assumed that this molecule is not transported far up into the atmosphere, as it rapidly declines ...