BOGOTA, Colombia — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rain forest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change. A ...

Forest loss, along with climate change, is changing the resilience of the Amazon Rainforest. By disrupting the movement of ...

The biotic pump theory was developed by scientists Anastassia Makarieva and the late Victor Gorshkov, who were Russian theoretical physicists working for the Theoretical Physics Division of the ...

The Amazon rainforest is a biological jackpot, a climate regulator, and a living history book all at once. Scientists are still learning new things about it every year, and what’s already known is ...

The Amazon is the world's largest tropical forest, home to unmatched biodiversity and one of the planet's longest rivers. Besides the Amazon River, the Amazon rainforest also features "flying rivers:" ...

Below-average rainfall - even through the rainy season - has plagued the Amazon and much of South America since last year, also feeding the worst wildfires in more than a decade in Brazil and Bolivia.

This story was produced with assistance from the Pulitzer Center and additional support from the Pendleton Mazer Family Fund and the Whole Systems Foundation. [CLIP: Sound of the forest at ZF2] Daniel ...

Through his visit to the Amazon tall tower observatory in Brazil, author Ferris Jabr explains how microbes change the weather. June 28, 2024 The following is an excerpt from Becoming Earth: How Our ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New photos and rare video of an uncontacted Indigenous tribe in the Peruvian Amazon show a collection of the people emerging from ...

Every rainy season, the Cristalino River in the south of the Amazon basin bursts its banks, enabling travellers to kayak through a flooded forest. A kayak tour trailing through a sea of trees in the ...