Sir David Attenborough is a broadcaster and naturalist whose career as the face and voice of natural history programmes has spanned more than 70 years. Slash-and-burn cultivation is a major ...

Deforestation is having a more devastating effect on the Amazon rainforest than earlier data suggested. While cutting down large swaths of trees destroys vital habitats, it also harms the region's ...

Scientists realized that the rain-making services of tropical forests have long been taken for granted, so they stepped ...

CAXIUANA NATIONAL FOREST – 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 ...

Tracy and I on our hike through the rainforest (Tapajós National Forest in Brazil). Tracy is wearing one of the blue ponchos provided by The Nature Conservancy to protect from the heavy rain that ...

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. A warming climate fed ...

Every time humans cut into the Amazon rainforest or burn or destroy parts of it, they're making people sick. It's an idea Indigenous people have lived by for thousands of years. Now a new study in the ...

Belém, Brazil – Gland, Switzerland (11 SEPTEMBER 2025) — New research published today in Communications Earth and Environment, a Nature Group journal, finds that municipalities in the Amazon region ...

Every time humans cut into the Amazon rainforest or burn or destroy parts of it, they’re making people sick. It’s an idea Indigenous people have lived by for thousands of years. Now a new study in the ...