In this video, we explore the Amazon rainforest and discuss the impact of human activity on its ecosystem. Discover how ...

A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser, and the temperature rises in places sunlight hits the ground. This is what ...

American conservationist and Amazon explorer Paul Rosolie captured the spine-tingling moment that giant ants dismantled his tent during a hellacious night in the jungle. geno sajko - stock.adobe.com ...

The average size of trees in the Amazon rainforest has been steadily increasing as carbon dioxide levels have risen, meaning these larger trees play a more important role in determining whether the ...

For roughly 65 million years, the forests of the Amazon were resilient to changes in the climate. But that is changing rapidly, as the region is exposed to unprecedented stress from global warming, ...

A study looking at land and atmosphere interactions in the Amazon Basin across four decades found that 52-72% of the rainfall decline in the southern Amazon is due to large-scale deforestation.

The potentially catastrophic slowdown of a critical ocean current due to climate change may have one upside: it could help prop up the Amazon rainforest in the face of rising temperatures. Fluorescent ...