The world’s climate math increasingly hinges on a surprisingly specific variable: whether the Amazon’s biggest trees are left ...
On Friday, at least 100 Indigenous protestors blocked the entrance to the 30th Annual United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP30, in Belém, Brazil. The action comes on the heels of an action ...
Deforestation is having a more devastating effect on the Amazon rainforest than earlier data suggested. While cutting down ...
As we broadcast from the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, we are joined by one of Brazil’s most prominent scientists, Carlos Nobre, who says the Amazon now produces more carbon emissions than it ...
A forty-year study shows climate change is reshaping Amazon and Andean forests, with uneven tree gains and losses across ...
The launch of the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) at the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil underscores how the Amazon Forest can be part of the climate solution. There’s another Amazon, ...
ALTAMIRA, Brazil – If much of the Amazon forest is to wither away, this is the town where that end was foretold. During its campaign to develop the region, Brazil’s former military dictatorship chose ...
At the United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2015, countries around the world committed to striving towards net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by the middle of the 21st century. But achieving ...
If you liked this story, share it with other people. The first time Virgilio Viana saw the Amazon up close, he was a 16-year-old with a backpack, two school friends and very little sense of what he ...