The Amazon rainforest is often described as one of the most important ecosystems on the planet, yet it is also one of the most threatened. Every year, large sections of it disappear due to human ...

Deep inside the Amazon, Indigenous leaders are fighting to preserve the rainforest More than 9 million acres of tropical ...

Lesly, Soleiny, Tien and Cristin lived in the Amazon rainforest for over a month after their plane crashed Emily Blackwood is a writer and editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The Amazon may be approaching the point of near total collapse, a new ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Archaeologists have discovered a lost colonial city in the Amazon ...

The Amazon Basin lost about 27,000 square kilometers of forest each year from 2001 to 2016. By 2021, about 17% of the basin had been deforested. Changes to forest cover can affect surface albedo, ...

At dawn in this small Amazonian village in Brazil's Para state, flocks of noisy green parrots soar overhead as children run and play between wooden homes, kicking up sandy soil—in places white and ...

Global climate temperature is a key factor in the survival of the Amazon rainforest, indeed the survival of humans, civilization and the Earth. According to Copernicus, the European Union’s Earth ...

Global warming may be interacting with regional rainfall and deforestation to accelerate forest loss in the Amazon, pushing it towards partial or total collapse. New research has identified the ...

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon dropped substantially in the first six months of this year, perhaps signaling a reversal after years of losses in the vast rainforest. Some good news out of Brazil ...

First, the roads disappear. Then, the noise. When the boat glides down the Tambopata River, surrounded by primary forest, ...

Kerry Bowman is a bioethicist and environmentalist at the University of Toronto who is currently engaged in humanitarian and ...