Deforestation in the Amazon is causing significant regional changes in climate compared to areas with forest cover above 80%.

Rapid growth in the human population has sharply increased demand for global resources, including water, food, housing, and ...

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is responsible for approximately 74.5% of the reduction in rainfall and 16.5% of the temperature increase in the biome during the dry season. For the first time, ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Droughts have withered crops in Peru, fires have scorched the Amazon, and hydroelectric dams in Ecuador have struggled to keep the lights on as rivers dry up. Scientists say the ...

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest has fallen for the fourth straight year, the government said Thursday, a boost for the country just days before it hosts UN climate talks. Brazil is home to ...

The main causes of climate change — particularly the rapid global warming observed since the pre-industrial period — ...

More than 100 countries pledged Tuesday to end deforestation in the coming decade — a promise that experts say would be critical to limiting climate change but one that has been made and broken before ...

BELEM, Brazil — Maria Gorete, who just began ranching three years ago, is doing something new with her 76 head of cattle in the Brazilian countryside near the town of Novo Repartimento. She's piercing ...

Kolkata: The West Bengal commission for protection of child rights (WBCPCR) has developed a booklet of climate change-related projects for schools to .

Scientists warn that "flying rivers" — invisible streams of moisture that carry rain from the Atlantic Ocean westward across the Amazon — are weakening as deforestation and climate change advance.