El Niño and warming in the tropical Atlantic could help provide advance warning of extreme heat in the Amazon, with some ...

VisionFund, the financial inclusion arm of World Vision, working alongside with Global Parametrics and co-financed by the InsuResilience Solutions Fund, ...

Due to the location's dependence on water and its vulnerability to global forcing, the basin is warming rapidly ...

The Amazon forest has recently experienced substantial human-induced loss of forest cover. However, the extent to which such historical deforestation has altered regional observed precipitation ...

A consortium of researchers led by the University of St Andrews, Scotland, and Charles University, Prague have developed a new data-driven map which predicts substantially more peatland area in the ...

The Amazon Basin, as Earth’s largest tropical forest, exerts a profound influence on regional and global climate through complex interactions between vegetation, the atmosphere and the hydrological ...

As deforestation and climate change threaten to transform the Amazon, there is growing concern that the ecosystem may be reaching an irreversible tipping point, beyond which self-reinforcing feedback ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Indigenous leaders representing more than 511 peoples from the Amazon Basin met in Brasília to discuss the solutions they are implementing in their ...

For the first time, the United Nations climate change negotiations are taking place at the edge of a tropical rainforest, a setting many are still waiting to see if it can inspire governments to take ...

New ecological niche modeling shows the frugivorous bat Vampyrodes major may keep nearly all its suitable habitat through 2060, while V. caraccioli could lose up to half of its climatically suitable ...

The Amazon basin houses over three million species in its rainforest ecosystem, with over 2,500 tree species creating and sustaining this vibrant environment. One in ten known species in the world ...