El Niño is back with a vengeance. A mammoth patch of warm water is growing in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is giving four-in-five odds that ...

Amazon forest fires peaked during a crushing 2024 drought, but just a year later, the total burned area dropped to its lowest level since records began in 1985, reports Euronews.Data from the ...

Aerial view of the Amazon forest and the Red River, Colombia. © Luis Barreto / WWF-UK The world’s largest tropical forest is home to more species than anywhere ...

The forests of the Brazilian Amazon are, by any measure, among the most important ecosystems on Earth. They absorb carbon on a planetary scale, regulate rainfall across South America, and shelter ...

Between 2018 and 2022, agricultural expansion was linked to the loss of 8.6 million hectares of Amazon forest — an area larger than Austria. A new WWF analysis shows that cattle ranching and soy ...