BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change.

Brazil's Amazon rainforest has shrunk by an area as big as Spain over four decades and is nearing a dangerous tipping point, according to monitoring data released Monday. The Amazon was approaching a ...

A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser, and the temperature rises in places sunlight hits the ground. This is what ...

Why it's incredible: El Cono stands alone in the rainforest and has a mysterious pyramidal shape. Cerro El Cono is a 1,310-foot-tall (400 meters), pyramid-like formation in the Amazon rainforest. It ...

Trees are growing even bigger in the Amazon rainforest - despite climate change, reveals new research. Average tree size across the world’s largest tropical rainforest has increased by 3.2% every ...

The Amazon rainforest may be able to survive long-term drought caused by climate change but could experience “profound changes” including the death of large trees and a diminished ability to absorb ...

Stretching across 2.6 million square miles and eight countries and filled with more than 3 million species of plants and animals, the Amazon rainforest is a wild and wonderful place. There are ...

The potentially catastrophic slowdown of a critical ocean current due to climate change may have one upside: it could help prop up the Amazon rainforest in the face of rising temperatures.