Deforestation in the Amazon is making the region hotter and drier, with less rainfall as the forest loses its ability to ...

Scientists first outlined the prospect of a Hothouse Earth in 2018, warning that cascading tipping points could lock the ...

June 22 marks World Rainforest Day, launched in 2017 by Rainforest Partnership to highlight the critical role of tropical forests. These ecosystems stabilize the climate, regulate rainfall, store vast ...

How long would it take for the world's largest rainforest to burn down? If we don't do anything to stop it, we'll soon find ...

Imagine Earth’s lungs being cut into small pieces like a Black Friday deal. That’s what’s happening to our planet’s ecological safety nets today. Every day, we lose 80,000 acres of rainforest, an area ...

When Siberian volcanoes kicked off the Great Dying, the real climate villain turned out to be the rainforests themselves: once they collapsed, Earth’s biggest carbon sponge vanished, CO₂ rocketed, and ...

In Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem, orangutans swing through the treetops, rhinos roam free, and elephants share the land with tigers. It is the last place on Earth where they still coexist in the ...

Before the late ‘80s, most people didn’t really think about the rainforest; the concept of such a place hadn’t yet entered into the public consciousness. When people thought about dense, tropical ...

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