This expansive forest stretches across several South American countries, breathing life into the very atmosphere we depend on ...

The Amazon Basin affects the world’s climate. It produces about 20% of the Earth’s oxygen, earning it the nickname “Lungs of Earth.” Trees in the rainforest help control the weather by ...

“If the Amazon rainforest is to avoid the tipping point ... in deforestation had already been recorded by July due to dry weather caused by El Nino, a weather phenomenon that warms the central ...

A hemisphere away, the Amazon rainforest continues to reel from its ... essential role in maintaining climate stability by driving weather patterns, influencing rainfall and, importantly ...

USAID’s largest initiative is the Partnership for the Conservation of Amazon Biodiversity, which focuses on conservation and improving livelihoods for Indigenous peoples and other rainforest ...

They fear Donald Trump’s second administration will bring nothing good for the Amazon rainforest. Besides Trump’s Day 1 move to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, they fear he’ll cut ...