Plastic may well be a useful everyday item, but its careless disposal in oceans and inland waterways is a pressing global ...

A new study quantified the amount of Saharan dust reaching the Amazon to better understand how dust could impact soil fertility in the region. Intense tropical weathering and local biomass burning ...

The average size of trees in the Amazon rainforest has been steadily increasing due to the rising levels of carbon dioxide ...

The Amazon rainforest generates half its own rainfall, but deforestation threatens to disrupt this cycle, shifting large parts of this ancient forest to dry, savanna habitat. Passing such a “tipping ...

The Amazon rainforest is on course to reach a crucial tipping point as soon as 2050, with devastating consequences for the region and the world’s ability to tackle climate change, according to a study ...

Deforestation is playing a greater role than researchers expected, according to a new study. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey For decades, the dry season in the Amazon rainforest has been getting drier. A new ...

The Amazon Rainforest is known in part as one of the biggest carbon reserves on the planet (despite our best efforts to make it less so). A new study from U.S. and Brazilian scientists discerns how ...

During a field expedition to the "heart" of the Amazon basin in Brazil, researchers discovered two small fish in the region's tea-colored waters that were previously unknown to science. The first ...

Millions of lasers shot from a helicopter flying over the Amazon basin have revealed evidence of unknown settlements built by a "lost" pre-Hispanic civilization, resolving a long-standing scientific ...

Brazil's state oil company, Petrobras (PETR3. RA), was denied a license to drill in the Foz do Amazonas basin on a regulatory ...