A new study by researchers at the European Commission's Joint Research Center reveals that the Amazon rainforest has just undergone its most devastating forest fire season in over two decades, which ...

The Amazon rainforest rarely burned before humans arrived. A 10,000-year record reveals how human-set fires transformed the ...

The Amazon rainforest, often called the lungs of the Earth, faces a high risk of devastating wildfires as a new El Nino event builds in the Pacific. Experts warn that drier conditions could lead to ...

SAO PAULO — 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 annual ...

New research is dismantling the longstanding myth of the "pristine" Amazon. A reconstruction of 10,000 years of Amazonian pyrogeography, based on 1,361 radiocarbon (¹⁴C) dates across 303 ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Brazil’s official data show deforestation in the Amazon fell 11% in the 12 months to July 2025, with independent monitoring by Imazon confirming a ...

After four decades of research, a scientist returns to the Amazon in an effort to change the behavior that has led to years of environmental crisis. After four decades of research, a scientist returns ...

Fresh evidence has emerged that challenges the perception of the Amazon as an untouched wilderness prior to modern times. A study that has reconstructed 10,000 years of fire history using 1,361 ...

Forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon fell to a historic low in 2025 after peaking the previous year, according to a new report. Deforestation in the world’s largest rainforest also eased off last year ...

Global climate temperature is a key factor in the survival of the Amazon rainforest, indeed the survival of humans, civilization and the Earth. According to Copernicus, the European Union’s Earth ...