A UF climate activist is leading a 2,693 mile journey across the Amazon that’ll end with a United Nations conference. A group of climate change leaders are embarking on an expedition down the Amazon ...
“If you’ve tasted jaraqui, you’ll never leave here,” Márcio da Silva Santos, the tuxaua, or the chief community leader of an Amazonian village named Betel, told the Science reporter Daniel Grossman ...
An aerial view of the Amazon rainforest near Manaus, Brazil “Amazon 9” by Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT under CC BY-SA 2.00 The already large trees of the Amazon rainforest are getting ...
An unexpected region of the Amazon is at the forefront of rapid growth in climate extremes, a new report reveals. The central north Amazon, a region with extensive areas of high forest cover, natural ...
The drought in the central Amazon was already showing signs of unusual severity in early September 2023, but the situation turned catastrophic by the end of the month, when the carcasses of two ...
Democracy Now! is broadcasting from the U.N. climate summit in the Brazilian rainforest city of Belém, near the mouth of the Amazon River, where the COP30 summit has entered its second week of ...
Activists with Coordination of the Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon stand next to a giant inflatable capybara, a mammal native to South America, during a protest Oct. 14, 2025, to ...
With the support of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, essentially all of Brazil’s government outside of the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change is promoting actions that push us toward ...
A team of researchers looked at changes in tree richness across the lowland and montane forests of the Andes and Amazon over the last four decades. While their results didn’t show an overall shift in ...