David Lapola is testing a big climate-science unknown: how will the forest cope as atmospheric carbon dioxide continues to ...

Deep in the flooded forests of the western Amazon, scientists have identified afrog species that had remained invisible to science until now. Named Adenomera varcena, the newly described amphibian ...

Aerial view of the Amazon forest and the Red River, Colombia. © Luis Barreto / WWF-UK The world’s largest tropical forest is home to more species than anywhere ...

It turns out, the Amazon wasn’t always the wild jungle we picture today. Between around 600 BCE and 850 CE, a civilization known as the Aquiry dramatically transformed large parts of the southwestern ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Amazon biodiversity protection depends on more than keeping forests standing; a forest can remain on the map while losing ecological function, ...

El Niño is back with a vengeance. A mammoth patch of warm water is growing in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is giving four-in-five odds that ...

Over the past 40 years, the same Amazon trees growing in Peru have started growing thinner, flimsier leaves. Scientists worry they’re being pushed to the brink. By studying the 1983 leaf samples in ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Three 2026 studies reveal that the Amazon can regrow quickly, but deforestation and warming could trigger a system-wide tipping point in the next ...