A new study predicts that by 2100, the Amazon rainforest could experience up to 150 days of hot drought conditions each year, ...

The Amazon rainforest is slowly transitioning to a new, hotter climate with more frequent and intense droughts—conditions ...

Known as the “hypertropics,” this climate is defined by hot drought conditions—and hasn’t been seen on Earth for tens of ...

As global temperatures keep rising, any drop in the Amazon’s ability to store carbon could speed up warming worldwide. In ...

For decades the world’s largest rainforest has been getting drier. A new study published in Nature Communications disentangles how much of this shift can be blamed on humanity’s warming of the planet ...

The Amazon is facing a hotter, drier future, with rising drought stress threatening forests that help regulate Earth’s ...

The health of the Amazon forest and river are intertwined. By storing carbon, the forest can be a key part of climate solutions but plans for expanding hydropower could undermine that climate solution ...

The Brazilian academic believes that the tipping point he has warned of for decades is ‘much closer’ — but he retains his ...

Dr. Magali Nehemy stood on the banks of the Tapajós River in the Amazon rainforest when the community's chief—a man in his ...

Extreme river flood levels reach several meters depth, as indicated by the darker shade on the bark of this tree from seasonally flooded forests in the Amazon region. (Bruno B L Cintra, University of ...

A UC Berkeley-led analysis of tree mortality after two recent Amazonian droughts shows that “hot drought” conditions, which are becoming more frequent, are leading to tree dieoffs and reducing the ...

Around the world, politicians, backed by powerful corporations, are presenting the public with false choices between ...