Parts of the Amazon are drifting into uncharted territory. According to a concerning new study published in Nature, the ...

Known as the “hypertropics,” this climate is defined by hot drought conditions—and hasn’t been seen on Earth for tens of ...

New research tries to anticipate road building to identify areas in the Amazon, Asia and Africa that are likely to face ...

The Amazon rainforest currently has a few days or weeks of hot drought conditions per year, but researchers say this could ...

The tropical rainforest of the Congo basin is the world’s second-largest. (The Amazon is slightly bigger, but far better studied.) Via the Congo river, water drains into the Atlantic largely from six ...

One of the world’s biggest pulp and paper companies has acknowledged to Mongabay a potential breach of its no-deforestation ...

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

A new study predicts that by 2100, the Amazon rainforest could experience up to 150 days of hot drought conditions each year, ...

As the global climate warms and the dry season lengthens, signs of a shift towards a hypertropical climate pattern are starting to emerge in the Amazon rainforest.

By Alexandre de Santi In just under a year from now, the world will turn to Belém, Brazil, a city on the edge of the Amazon ...

(CNN)Parts of the Amazon rainforest are now emitting more carbon dioxide than they absorb, raising fears of the potentially devastating impact on its fragile ecosystems and a further worsening of the ...