Despite a rapidly changing environment and other threats, these Indigenous women are still fighting for their communities.

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 ...

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 ...

The Amazon rainforest experienced its most devastating fire season in over two decades during 2024. The 2024 fires released substantial amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which roughly ...

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, ...

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 ...