By Amanda Magnani 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 ...

If the Amazon rainforest are the lungs of the planet, then the Andes are its lifeblood. The world’s last remaining hotspot for agrobiodiversity, the region is the origin of many nutritionally ...

Climate-induced water shortages turn up the pressure Despite serious social and environmental impacts, hydropower remains an ...

Tropical areas of south and central America such as the Amazon rainforest are home to some 7,500 species of butterfly compared with only around 65 species in Britain. UCL scientists have ruled out ...

The biodiversity of the Amazon rainforest results from biological factors, not climate change as widely thought, says new research published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B ...

They found 10 per cent of the Amazon basin is at risk of being exposed to at least two of these stressors by 2050, and therefore has a higher potential of transitioning to degraded forest or to a ...

There’s a struggle for law and order in many of the world’s tropical forests, and nature is losing. Last week, I wrote about the major progress Colombia made in 2023, slashing deforestation ...

“Even if we halted deforestation in the Amazon basin today, the forest would still be at risk of experiencing the consequences of a tipping point due to climate change,” Lapola said. “While stopping ...

Scientists have uncovered the Amazon’s earliest and largest example of farm-based citylike settlements high in the foothills of the Ecuadorian Andes. The thousands of mounds, plazas, terraces ...

As the Amazon River flows through the equatorial region, the basin witnesses both humid and rainy climate throughout the year. Weather during the day and night is hot. The humidity remains high ...

There is evidence that approximately 17% of the Amazon forests have been lost and an additional 17% are degraded. Continuing to lose this biome would affect the livelihoods of around 47 million people ...

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 ...