Deforestation coupled with climate change is rapidly pushing the Amazon Rainforest toward a perilous tipping point that could ...
Deforestation in the Amazon is driven more by domestic demand than by the export market, finds study
Brazilian Legal Amazonia (BLA)—which comprises the entirety of the Amazon Basin located in Brazil and vast adjacent swathes of the Cerrado, spanning nine states—is more than 5 million square ...
Wunderling, N., Sakschewski, B., Rockström, J., M. Flores, B., Hirota, M., Staal, A. (2026): Deforestation-induced drying lowers Amazon climate threshold. Nature. DOI:10.1038/s41586-026-10456-0 ...
Scientists analyzed tree growth rings to investigate whether the Amazon Basin is indeed drying up, as shown by extreme droughts in 2023 and 2024. Their study revealed that over the past four decades, ...
The study said that without additional deforestation, such large-scale drying of the Amazon would likely occur only at much ...
Rates of deforestation decreased significantly during the last year in Colombia and Brazil, two Amazonian nations that have historically been among the 10 countries with the highest forest loss in the ...
BOGOTA, Colombia — Interpol and partners launched a global law enforcement effort Wednesday aimed at dismantling criminal networks behind illegal logging, timber trafficking and gold mining, which ...
Hosted on MSN
The Amazon’s silent crime crisis (commentary)
The Amazon is approaching a dangerous threshold. Long understood as the world’s largest tropical forest and a critical regulator of the global climate, its future is increasingly shaped by the ...
Around two-thirds of the Amazon rainforest could shift into degraded forest or savanna-like ecosystems at 1.5–1.9°C of global ...
Brazilian Legal Amazonia (BLA) – which comprises the entirety of the Amazon Basin located in Brazil and vast adjacent swathes of the Cerrado, spanning nine states – is more than 5 million square ...
Results that may be inaccessible to you are currently showing.
Hide inaccessible results