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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)
environment
Published on May 07, 2026 03:34 pm IST

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

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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)
environment
Published on Nov 21, 2025 10:20 am IST

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)
world news
Published on Nov 21, 2025 04:00 am IST

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

Germany promises support for Brazil's forest initiative at UN climate talks
us news
Published on Nov 08, 2025 12:15 am IST

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.
world news
Updated on Nov 07, 2025 10:49 pm IST

Earth’s climate is approaching irreversible tipping points

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This aerial view shows a degraded area of the Amazon rainforest, near the Koatinemo indigenous land, in Para state, Brazil, on June 12
science
Published on Aug 14, 2025 04:30 pm IST

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

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Purple acai pulp in a smoothie bowl. (Pexels)
art culture
Updated on Jul 26, 2025 02:21 pm IST

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

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Pipes pump carbon into the air above a contained canopy, in an experiment underway in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. (Courtesy AmazonFACE)
art culture
Updated on Jun 14, 2025 04:40 pm IST

Brazil's Indigenous artists use film making to fight for rights

Brazil's Indigenous artists use film making to fight for rights
us news
Updated on Oct 06, 2025 03:38 pm IST

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

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(HT illustration: Puneet Kumar)
art culture
Updated on Mar 21, 2025 02:50 pm IST

The year ahead: A Nuclear solution?

The year ahead: A Nuclear solution?
world news
Published on Jan 01, 2025 02:25 pm IST

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

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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)
art culture
Updated on Dec 07, 2024 03:43 pm IST

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

Indigenous groups in Brazil: We were not consulted on carbon credits
us news
Published on Oct 15, 2024 12:31 am IST

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

Brazil says it has nearly cleared gold miners from Amazon Yanomami reservation
world news
Published on Sept 14, 2024 03:31 pm IST

Smoke from Brazil fires clouds major cities, neighboring countries

Smoke from Brazil fires clouds major cities, neighboring countries
world news
Updated on Sept 10, 2024 03:01 am IST

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,
world news
Published on Jan 13, 2024 06:02 pm IST

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)
environment
Published on Oct 02, 2023 10:10 am IST

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.
world news
Published on Sept 14, 2023 03:13 am IST

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.
world news
Published on Sept 06, 2023 02:50 am IST

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

How these spiders use debris and insects to create decoys
world news
Published on Aug 27, 2023 01:06 pm IST

Saving the rainforests would be a bargain

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Yet still the world’s trees are disappearing. The area covered by primary rainforest has dwindled by 6.7% since 2000.
environment
Published on Jun 25, 2023 12:03 am IST

The biggest obstacle to saving rainforests is lawlessness

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To save the rainforest, Brazil’s new government is trying to catch the criminals who cut it down
world news
Published on Jun 01, 2023 09:06 pm IST

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

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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)
environment
Updated on Mar 25, 2023 07:54 pm IST

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).
trending
Published on Mar 02, 2023 01:00 pm IST

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

Smoke billows from a fire in an area of the Amazon rainforest near Porto Velho.
environment
Published on Jan 26, 2023 09:28 pm IST

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.
environment
Published on Oct 28, 2022 11:51 am IST

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.
environment
Published on Sept 01, 2022 11:58 am IST

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.
world news
Published on Aug 17, 2022 07:29 am IST

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

Elon Musk
world news
Published on May 20, 2022 09:43 pm IST

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)
environment
Published on May 07, 2022 05:14 pm IST
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