As deforestation increases in the Amazon, it will decrease precipitation in California and create drier conditions in ...

The Amazon rainforest is one of the world's greatest natural resources, both in terms of the resources it contains and its role in producing oxygen and cleaning the world's air. The forest stores up ...

A carbon markets investor backed by Swiss-trading house Mercuria said on Wednesday it had joined with two non-profits to ...

"To effectively protect nature, you first need to know what's there." Researchers stunned by rare discovery deep in the ...

“The fires and drought experienced in 2024 across the Amazon rainforest could be ominous indicators that we are reaching the long-feared ecological tipping point,” said Andrew Miller, advocacy ...

By simulating the future atmosphere, scientists hope to understand whether trees will continue to act as the lungs of the ...

Asked if we'd actually know if we'd crossed a climate tipping point he said this would vary. The collapse of a monsoon system, he said, could happen extremely quickly whereas we might not observe a ...

I think people are starting to take notice." Was there a climate tipping point which gave him particular cause for concern? The Amazon rainforest, he said, given it was "vitally important" in ...

Biomes as well as individual ecosystems throughout the globe are experiencing considerable stress. As a researcher/writer ...

The Amazon, sometimes called the “lungs of the planet,” this year showed signs of further inching toward a much-feared tipping point, threatening the very existence of the world’s largest rainforest.