Archaeologists on Thursday unveiled a 3,500-year-old city in Peru that likely served as a trading hub linking Pacific coast ...

A 70,000-person global study found understanding how events such as fires and floods are linked to climate change may be a ...

African countries had 14 of the world’s 67 heat extreme events last year, and several had at least three months of hotter ...

The Amazon rainforest, often described as the lungs of the planet, has been at the heart of this vision, seen as a source of nearly limitless hydropower potential. For decades, Brazil has promoted ...

Lost cities Earlier this year, a huge ancient city was uncovered in the Amazon, changing completely what researchers knew about the history of people living there. Hidden for thousands of years by ...

Furthermore, the Amazon River basin — the territory drained by the river and its tributaries and distributed across Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela — experienced historically ...

Background: Cold Waves in the Amazon Rainforest Cold waves, in which temperatures drop sharply for at least three consecutive days, occur relatively frequently in the Amazon Basin. Between 1980 and ...

After two consecutive years of record-breaking droughts, the river levels in the Amazon Basin are slowly starting to recover. According to the Geological Survey of Brazil, the Madeira River, home ...

Two studies shed light on new climate mechanism Date: December 4, 2024 Source: Goethe University Frankfurt Summary: The rainforest in the Amazon basin transpires vast amounts of gaseous isoprene.

Some science suggests this system has far-reaching, global effects on rainfall and the earth’s temperature. “There are many different connections in the climate system,” West highlights.

Like other mining landscapes across the Pan Amazon, murder, extortion and armed robbery are common, as are multiple different forms of social and labor exploitation.

Villar’s remark about the effects of Amazon deforestation on the Altiplano highlights an important but occasionally overlooked fact: While El Niño worsened the drought around Titicaca, the drought’s ...