Hotter temperatures and harsher droughts could cause Indigenous societies to lose many of the species they have used for medicine, rituals and more, scientists found. By Raymond Zhong and Flávia ...

Climate change makes the southern Amazon's rain increasingly sensitive to deforestation, a new study finds. Clearing large areas of forest can trigger severe and lasting reductions in rainfall ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Scientists analyzed tree growth rings to investigate whether the Amazon Basin is indeed drying up, as shown by extreme droughts in 2023 and 2024.

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 ...

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 ...