According to WWF, climate change and deforestation could convert the majority of the Amazon rainforest into savanna, with massive impacts on the world’s biodiversity and climate. Curitiba, Brazil – ...

Recent studies indicate that the climate in the Legal Amazon (a geoeconomic region of Brazil covering all or part of nine states) is becoming hotter and wetter this century, particularly during the ...

OSLO (Reuters) - Swathes of the Amazon may have been grassland until a natural shift to a wetter climate about 2,000 years ago let the rainforests form, according to a study that challenges common ...

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Amazonian deforestation is altering atmospheric moisture transport; as a result, even low levels of global warming could trigger dieback of most of the remaining forest. Read the paper: ...

Smoke rises as a fire burns in the Amazon rainforest in Rondonia state, Brazil, in August 2019. (Bloomberg) -- Two new scientific review articles by international teams of researchers paint a bleak ...

Geoengineering could protect the Amazon rainforest from climate change, new research shows. Stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) aims to artificially cool the Earth by increasing the reflection of ...

The Amazon, often called the “lungs of the world,” is edging dangerously close to a point of no return. New research warns that if deforestation continues, large swathes of the world's greatest ...

A deforested area of the Amazon rainforest burns in Autazes, Brazil, on Oct. 12. Brazilian authorities are investigating whether a recent surge in wildfires have been set on purpose for political ...

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's reelection carries consequences far beyond Brazil's borders. Why it matters: Lula faces challenges including strained relations with the U.S. over trade ...

On 4 October, Brazilians will go to the polls to elect a president and government. Former president Jair Bolsonaro, under house arrest, cannot run. But his son Flávio is on the ballot. If elected, the ...