Climate change makes the southern Amazon's rain increasingly sensitive to deforestation, a new study finds. Clearing large ...

Researchers examined the combined effects of tree loss and global warming in an effort to better understand how and when an ...

Deforestation coupled with climate change is rapidly pushing the Amazon Rainforest toward a perilous tipping point that could ...

In 2025 tropical deforestation fell by more than a third after reaching record levels the previous year. Experts welcomed the ...

Lower tipping point: Researchers found climate change reduces the deforestation threshold for rainfall loss from 50% to as low as 10% in high-emission scenarios. Agriculture at risk: Even a 4% drop in ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — The administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva frequently touts how it has sharply slowed deforestation in the Amazon, and indeed it has. When the next official ...

Deforestation harms the planet and humans in many ways. Trees play a major role in the global effort to slow the pace of climate change, preserve wildlife, and support more than eight billion people.

Around two-thirds of the Amazon rainforest could shift into degraded forest or savannah-like ecosystems at 1.5-1.9°C of global warming if deforestation increases to roughly 22-28 percent of the Amazon ...

UNESCO sites are proof that protecting land is a powerful tool against climate change and human activity, but is it enough?

BRASILIA, Brazil — Wildfires in Brazil have swept through an area the size of Switzerland, a level of destruction that will take decades to recover, if it ever does, according to a new satellite ...