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Brazil’s Amazon gets relief after 2024 fire disaster, but El Nino threat looms

Flames engulfed the world's largest tropical rainforest in 2024 when an unprecedented drought triggered the spread of fires, the majority of which were man-made.

Updated 16 hours ago

Amazon rainforest may hit tipping point at 1.9°C global warming: Study

Indigenous people from the Mura tribe show a deforested area inside the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. (Reuters File)

Published 75 days ago

They Held a Climate Summit in the Amazon. They Didn’t Account for the Rain.

Attendees sit under a globe in a lobby at the side events pavilions at the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025, in Belem, Brazil. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Published 242 days ago

Had to overhaul infra, spend $1.2bn to ensure COP is hosted in Amazon: Brazil

Attendees exit the venue for the COP30 UN Climate Summit, in Belem, Brazil, on Thursday. (AP)

Published 242 days ago

Germany promises support for Brazil's forest initiative at UN climate talks

Germany promises support for Brazil's forest initiative at UN climate talks

Published 256 days ago

World leaders gather for 2nd day in Brazil, seeking solutions to global warming

(L to R) Brazil's Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, First Lady Rosangela da Silva, World Bank's Senior Managing Director Axel van Trotsenburg and the Democratic Republic of the Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi attend the Leaders Round Table to launch the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) in the framework of the COP30 UN Climate Change Conference in Belem, Para State, Brazil, on November 6, 2025.

Updated 256 days ago

Earth’s climate is approaching irreversible tipping points

This aerial view shows a degraded area of the Amazon rainforest, near the Koatinemo indigenous land, in Para state, Brazil, on June 12

Published 341 days ago

Modern conflict, ancient lore: Swetha Sivakumar traces the tale of acai

Purple acai pulp in a smoothie bowl. (Pexels)

Updated 360 days ago

Wood omens: What will the forests of the future look like?

Pipes pump carbon into the air above a contained canopy, in an experiment underway in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. (Courtesy AmazonFACE)

Updated 402 days ago

Ghost protocol: Wknd explores the growing threat to world’s uncontacted tribes

(HT illustration: Puneet Kumar)

Updated 487 days ago

The year ahead: A Nuclear solution?

The year ahead: A Nuclear solution?

Published 566 days ago

‘Lung’ tests for the Amazon: A new study will measure carbon intake per plant

The Amazon rainforest was one of the world’s largest carbon absorbers. It still releases 20 billion tonnes of water into the atmosphere a day, playing a crucial role in weather, carbon and water cycles. (Adobe Stock)

Updated 591 days ago

Indigenous groups in Brazil: We were not consulted on carbon credits

Indigenous groups in Brazil: We were not consulted on carbon credits

Published 645 days ago

Brazil says it has nearly cleared gold miners from Amazon Yanomami reservation

Brazil says it has nearly cleared gold miners from Amazon Yanomami reservation

Published 675 days ago

Smoke from Brazil fires clouds major cities, neighboring countries

Smoke from Brazil fires clouds major cities, neighboring countries

Updated 679 days ago

Amazon rainforest: Five ancient cities connected by roads discovered

This LIDAR image provided by researchers in January 2024 shows a main street crossing an urban area, creating an axis along which complexes of rectangular platforms are arranged around low squares at the Copueno site, Upano Valley in Ecuador. Archeologists have uncovered a cluster of lost cities in the Amazon rainforest that was home to at least 10,000 farmers around 2,000 years ago,

Published 920 days ago

Over 100 dolphins dead in Amazon as it hits record-high temperature

According to the Mamiraua Institute, a research facility funded by the Brazilian Ministry of Science, these dolphins were found in Lake Tefe. (File)

Published 1023 days ago

Brazil likely to launch Amazon rainforest international security hub this year

Smoke from forest fires affects an area of the Amazon rainforest by the BR-319 highway at sunrise in Careiro Castanho, Amazonas state, Brazil.

Published 1041 days ago

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon falls 66% in August

Brazilian indigenous peoples gather as the Supreme Court on weighing the constitutionality of laws to limit the ability of Indigenous peoples to win protected status for ancestral lands, in Brasilia, Brazil August 30.

Published 1049 days ago

New spider species in Amazon makes fake spiders, found in Philippines

How these spiders use debris and insects to create decoys

Published 1059 days ago

Saving the rainforests would be a bargain

Yet still the world’s trees are disappearing. The area covered by primary rainforest has dwindled by 6.7% since 2000.

Published 1123 days ago

The biggest obstacle to saving rainforests is lawlessness

To save the rainforest, Brazil’s new government is trying to catch the criminals who cut it down

Published 1146 days ago

Cause and Effect | Is the world on the brink of multiple tipping points?

Steam rises from the coal-fired power plant near wind turbines Niederaussem, Germany, as the sun rises on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022. Germany cut its greenhouse gas emissions by almost 2% last year, beating previous estimates but still falling far short of the cuts needed to meet its medium-term climate goals. (AP Photo)

Updated 1214 days ago

Man claims he ate worm, drank rainwater to survive in Amazon jungle for 31 days

The man shared that he survived by eating worms and insects (representational image).

Published 1237 days ago

Climate tipping points in Amazon, Tibet 'linked': Scientists

Smoke billows from a fire in an area of the Amazon rainforest near Porto Velho.

Published 1272 days ago

Brazil's top court set to rule in favor of billion-dollar Amazon fund revival

An aerial view shows a deforested plot of the Amazon rainforest in Manaus, Amazonas State, Brazil July 8.

Published 1362 days ago

Brazil's Amazon sees worst August wildfire in almost a decade

Aerial view of a burnt area in the Amazon rainforest, near the Lago do Cunia Extractive Reserve, on the border of the states of Rondonia and Amazonas, northern Brazil, on Wednesday.

Published 1419 days ago

Amazon tribe film themselves in Nat Geo documentary, “The Territory”

(FILES) A young woman from the Uru Eu Wau Wau tribe gets out from a straw-thatched hut in the tribe's reserve in the Amazon, south of Porto Velho, Brazil.

Published 1434 days ago

Elon Musk visits Brazil's Bolsonaro to discuss Amazon rainforest plans

Elon Musk

Published 1523 days ago

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon hits April record, nearly double previous peak

Uraricoera River is seen flowing through the heart of the Amazon rainforest, in Roraima state, Brazil April 15, 2016. (REUTERS/Bruno Kelly)

Published 1536 days ago

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