"We're not seeing signs of them dying off," one of the study's lead authors told NBC News. "They are increasing in size and ...

Local patrols in the Amazon are leading a conservation success story, protecting forests and wildlife against growing threats ...

For decades, researchers anticipated that climate change would stunt the Amazon’s tallest trees. But a gargantuan new study ...

Tens of thousands of fires swept through the Brazilian Amazon during the recently concluded forest fire season, with the environmental organization WWF reporting on Monday that the blazes destroyed an ...

Brazil experienced a dramatic surge in forest fires in 2024, with 30.8 million hectares of land burned—a 79% increase compared to the previous year. This alarming data was revealed in a report by the ...

Wildfires are burning at a record rate in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, creating a plume of smoke so large that it can be seen from space. A government monitoring agency said Brazil has seen a record ...

Fires may be lower this year, but the Amazon is still being deliberately cleared for profit.For decades, fires have been set ...

Without trees, the Amazon faces harsher extremes. New modeling reveals more heat, violent storms, and stronger winds.

Brazil reduced deforestation in the Amazon by 80% from 2004 to 2012 but in fact, the rate of deforestation has risen since ...

Fires sweeping through the Amazonian rainforest are shocking to see, but they're not the only cause of climate-change-enabling deforestation. A brush fire in the Atlantic Forest in 2017. Photo: Getty ...

Cornell Students for Animal Rights and Cornell Vegan Society stood in solidarity outside of Barton Hall during Sunday’s ClubFest, bearing signs of “Burning the Amazon is Genocide” and “Take Action” to ...