Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists found that stratospheric aerosol injection may help the Amazon rainforest store more carbon and resist climate damage. ...

The Amazon rainforest might be closer to a tipping point than scientists thought. Some fear that droughts and fire could nudge it into irreversible decline.

By Amanda Magnani For decades, scientists have been trying to answer a key question: What would the Amazon rainforest look ...

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 ...

According to WWF, climate change and deforestation could convert the majority of the Amazon rainforest into savanna, with massive impacts on the world’s biodiversity and climate. Curitiba, Brazil – ...

Even after fires, severe droughts, and windstorms, the vegetation in degraded Amazonian forests demonstrates a high capacity for regeneration, including tree species. However, recovery occurs under ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Amazon biodiversity protection depends on more than keeping forests standing; a forest can remain on the map while losing ecological function, ...

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 ...

A campaign to protect one of the world's most important rainforests took an unexpected turn when conservationist Paul Rosolie ...

As the planet heats up and climate warnings grow more urgent, scientists are studying ideas that once sounded like science fiction. One of the most controversial involves changing the sky itself. A ...