The high-resolution map provides the first field-data-driven extent of peatlands in the Amazon basin and will be useful for future research and policy on the vulnerability of peatlands to climate ...

The Amazon basin is far from the only region in the world to face threats from climate-induced weather disasters. The WWA has linked a number of other extreme weather events directly to the ...

Since January, a series of forest fires have been threatening the entire Amazon basin, which is known as the “lungs of the world,” due to its extensive forests and vast biodiversity.

Even the most pristine parts of the Amazon are threatened. Guyana, which has lots of untouched forest, wants the world to pay to keep its biodiverse, carbon-rich rainforests standing. Yet ...

Tree rings in the Amazon reveal intensifying rainfall extremes, with wetter wet seasons and drier dry seasons, reshaping ...

In the depths of the Amazon, Brazil is building an otherworldly structure — a complex of towers arrayed in six rings poised to spray mists of carbon dioxide into the rainforest — but the reason is ...

Notwithstanding these and other obstacles, new technologies are helping to optimize detection, deterrence and disruption of environmental crime, including in the Amazon Basin. Governments ...

The Amazon Basin has long been regarded as the lungs ... Darren lives in Portland, has a cat, and writes/edits about sci-fi and how our world works. You can find his previous stuff at Gizmodo ...

In 2023, the Amazon basin suffered its most severe drought in at least 45 years – which scientists at the World Weather Attribution group found had been made many times more likely by climate ...

He is a fellow at Princeton University, Singularity University, Bosch Academy, the Chicago Council for Global Affairs and the World Economic ... threat to the Amazon basin. Clear-cutting the ...