Trees across the Amazon rainforest are growing larger in response to rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, ...

Tree trunks in the Amazon are getting 3.3% thicker every decade as the plants absorb extra carbon dioxide, suggesting they ...

Brazil has announced a historic step to protect tropical forests. At a United Nations event in New York, President Luiz ...

A 30-year study found that Amazon rainforest trees are growing 3.2% larger each decade due to increased atmospheric carbon ...

Brazil's Amazon rainforest has shrunk by an area as big as Spain over four decades and is nearing a dangerous tipping point, ...

The Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) proposed by Brazil is expected to be launched at COP30 and raise funds for ...

Researchers say their findings highlight just how important tropical rainforests are in our ongoing efforts to address man-made climate change.

As nations struggled during Climate Week (Sept 21-28) in New York City to increase their emission-reduction pledges to slow ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest slowed by nearly half compared to the year before, according to government satellite data released Wednesday. It’s the largest ...

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A road that once opened the Amazon to destruction is being expanded, and critics fear history will repeat itself.

Brazil’s Federal Police can trace whether gold came from an illegal mine in the Amazon rainforest, and investigators told ...