At the time of writing, Brazil's space agency Inpe reports that there have been almost 85,000 fires in the rainforest so far. So what does this mean for the many animals who call the Amazon home?

I received the following email from my grandson Parker who was on a field trip in Central America: “While walking a trail in ...

According to the 2024 Living Planet Report released today by World Wildlife Fund (WWF), where I serve as chief scientist, globally monitored wildlife populations have plummeted by 73% in just 50 years ...

While many of Earth’s earliest life forms have long since gone extinct, some animals have stood the ... Native to the Amazon rainforest, this bird is notable for its distinctive features ...

Millions of hectares of forest are burning in the Amazon and the homes of indigenous communities and vulnerable rainforest species are being destroyed. Fires in this precious landscape have burned an ...

The White House says President Joe Biden will become the first sitting president to visit the Amazon rainforest later this ...

Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon dropped by 30.6% compared to the previous year, officials said Wednesday, the lowest level of ...

A rainforest tree can pump ... So much water arrives that the usual rules for animals seem to be turned upside down.... Fish eat fruit from trees. A tapir, having lost its meadows, grazes while ...

President Lula has pledged to end deforestation in the Amazon ... 60% of the rainforest is located in Brazil and is also home to about three million species of plants and animals, and one million ...

Its isolation has encouraged the survival of indigenous species such as the mountain tapir and the Andean condor ... These include glacial and volcanic ecosystems, cloud forests, Amazon rainforest, ...

The Amazon rainforest, known as the lungs of the Earth ... to identify and use plants, and to find where animals go to reproduce and feed. That knowledge is a cornerstone of Tacana culture ...

Lowland tapirs grazing on the riverbank ... and the very air we breathe. Today, the Amazon rainforest is on the brink of a transformation into degraded savanna, which would dramatically accelerate ...