The Amazon rainforest might be closer to a tipping point than scientists thought. Some fear that droughts and fire could nudge it into irreversible decline.

For years, the Amazon rainforest has been being cleared. The concern is that this unique ecosystem could collapse. However, Lula da Silva’s election as president brought hope. He announced that he ...

Brazil’s Supreme Court on Wednesday dealt a major blow to the future of the country’s soy moratorium, upholding state laws ...

Authorities from five Amazon countries arrested hundreds in a major crackdown on environmental crime ...

Operation Green Shield 2026 netted 839 arrests and $280 million in seized assets across five Amazon nations in 17 days -- the ...

ABU DHABI, 4th August, 2026 (WAM) -- Law enforcement agencies from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, with organisational support and leadership from the UAE through the International ...

More than 100 people have died in floods in India’s northeastern Assam state which government officials say is the worst the ...

The Andean Court of Justice has admitted an unprecedented case against Peru over its handling of illegal mining, marking the ...

Millions of years ago, rapid global warming dramatically altered Earth's forests. Human-driven climate change is working 10 times faster. Reading time 3 minutes Roughly 56 million years ago, a surge ...

For more than a decade, University of Wyoming botany Professor Ellen Currano has been collecting fossilized remnants of trees ...

Today, human-caused carbon emissions and warming are unfolding vastly faster than during the PETM. The fossil record reminds us that forests can recover, but only if humanity avoids pushing them ...

Climate change is intensifying disasters worldwide. Urgent action by governments and citizens is vital to protect the planet ...