Forests in the Brazilian Amazon damaged by fire remain about 2.6°C (4.7°F) hotter than neighboring intact or selectively logged stands, and the extra heat can linger for at least 30 years, according ...

The Amazon has suffered its most destructive fire season in more than two decades, releasing a staggering 791 million tons of carbon dioxide—on par with Germany’s annual emissions. Scientists found ...

The Amazon rainforest rarely burned before humans arrived. A 10,000-year record reveals how human-set fires transformed the ...

[(https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2025/05/02211016/founders-briefs-780x90-1.jpg) Healthy forests are more than climate shields; in the Amazon ...

New research is dismantling the longstanding myth of the "pristine" Amazon. A reconstruction of 10,000 years of Amazonian ...

SAO PAULO — The administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva frequently touts how it has sharply slowed deforestation in the Amazon, and indeed it has. When the next official annual ...

Fresh evidence has emerged that challenges the perception of the Amazon as an untouched wilderness prior to modern times. A study that has reconstructed 10,000 years of fire history using 1,361 ...

Global climate temperature is a key factor in the survival of the Amazon rainforest, indeed the survival of humans, civilization and the Earth. According to Copernicus, the European Union’s Earth ...

Scientists created an artificial drought in the Amazon rainforest for over two decades. Initially resilient, the forest lost ...

Healthy forests are more than climate shields; in the Amazon, they also serve as public-health infrastructure. A Communications Earth & Environment study spanning two decades across the biome links ...