Climate change makes the southern Amazon's rain increasingly sensitive to deforestation, a new study finds. Clearing large ...

Deforestation coupled with climate change is rapidly pushing the Amazon Rainforest toward a perilous tipping point that could ...

Researchers examined the combined effects of tree loss and global warming in an effort to better understand how and when an ...

Lower tipping point: Researchers found climate change reduces the deforestation threshold for rainfall loss from 50% to as low as 10% in high-emission scenarios. Agriculture at risk: Even a 4% drop in ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — The administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva frequently touts how it has sharply ...

Deforestation harms the planet and humans in many ways. Trees play a major role in the global effort to slow the pace of climate change, preserve wildlife, and support more than eight billion people.

More than 489 million hectares of forest land have been lost since 1990 due to deforestation. Human activities have ...

Around two-thirds of the Amazon rainforest could shift into degraded forest or savannah-like ecosystems at 1.5-1.9°C of global warming if deforestation increases to roughly 22-28 percent of the Amazon ...

Along the salty breeze of Ghana’s Volta Region coastline, fishmongers are confronting a growing crisis, one driven not only ...