The Amazon rainforest is often called the lungs of the planet because its trees help to regulate the global climate by ...

By Rhett Ayers Butler [( For decades the world’s largest rainforest has been getting drier. A new study published in Nature ...

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is doing far more than clearing trees: it’s directly shrinking the region’s rain supply ...

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is responsible for approximately 74.5% of the reduction in rainfall and 16.5% of the ...

BELEM, Brazil (AP) — The Amazon rainforest is a massive area, twice the size of India and sprawling across eight countries and one territory. It’s a crucial carbon sink for the climate, has ...

The Amazon is the world's largest tropical forest, home to unmatched biodiversity and one of the planet's longest rivers.

Researchers caution that the Amazon rainforest could disappear in the next hundred years, due to the combined effects of climate change and deforestation, and a new model predicts how that could ...

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to climate scientist Antonio Nobre about how climate change is affecting the Amazon forest in Brazil.

The Amazon rainforest is burning at an alarming rate, with tens of thousands of fires laying waste to the world's largest tropical rainforest.

The Amazon, the largest rainforest in the world, roughly half the size of the United States, is key to the health of the entire planet. Here’s why its destruction matters, and how you can help ...

Callan Bole was trapped in the Amazon rainforest for 18 days and feared he was going to die before a twist of fate meant that ...

Representatives of eight South American governments are gathering in Brazil this week to talk about the Amazon rainforest.