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Megafires are spreading in the Amazon — and they are here to stay

Sibélia Zanon and Luis Patriani 22 Feb 2024

Climate change made 2023 Amazon drought 30 times more likely, scientists say

Carla Ruas 26 Jan 2024
Planet satellite images of the confluence of the Rio Negro and Rio Jufari near the border of the states of Amazonas and Roraima in Brazil taken in October 2023, revealing sandbars and exposed riverbed during the severe drought that affected large parts of the Amazon rainforest. Photo courtesy of Planet Labs.

The year in rainforests: 2023

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Dec 2023

With half its surface water area lost, an Amazonian state runs dry

Amanda Magnani 26 Dec 2023
At least 228 freshwater dolphins have died in lakes connected to rivers, possibly killed by excess heat.

Detailed NASA analysis finds Earth and Amazon in deep climate trouble

Jenny Gonzales 21 Dec 2023

Prolonged drought brings unprecedented changes to Amazonian communities in Pará

Sarah Brown 6 Dec 2023
Reserva Narupa in Ecuador. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Mongabay CEO discusses slowdown in Amazon loss and other positive news

Mike DiGirolamo 21 Nov 2023

Amazon drought: Much damage still to come (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside, Rosimeire Araújo Silva 1 Nov 2023

People and nature suffer as historic drought fuels calamitous Amazon fires

André Schröder 24 Oct 2023
This Planet satellite image shows how extreme drought in the Amazon has reduced the Rio Negro to a trickle. Image Ⓒ 2023 Planet Labs PBC

Despite severe drought, Amazon deforestation continues to slow

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Oct 2023

A tale of two biomes as deforestation surges in Cerrado but wanes in Amazon

Sarah Brown 23 Aug 2023

Not all parts of the Amazon will survive future droughts, study says

Maxwell Radwin 5 May 2023

Ancient fires may be helping the Amazon survive droughts – modern ones, not so much

Maurício Brum 27 Mar 2023
A logging truck through deforested lands.

Make it local: Deforestation link to less Amazon rainfall tips activism shift

Sarah Brown 14 Mar 2023
Aerial view of burned areas in the Amazon Rainforest.

Amazon deforestation linked to reduced Tibetan snows, Antarctic ice loss: Study

Claire Asher 8 Mar 2023

Mapping of no-drill areas in Ecuador’s Amazon can be scaled for entire rainforest: Study

Maurício Brum and Sílvia Lisboa 13 Feb 2023
Fire near the Manicoré River in Amazonas state in August 2022. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

How close is the Amazon tipping point? Forest loss in the east changes the equation

Liz Kimbrough 20 Sep 2022

More droughts are coming, and the Amazon can’t keep up: Study

Liz Kimbrough 16 Sep 2022

Crimes against the Amazon reverberate across Brazil, analysis shows

Elizabeth Oliveira 31 Aug 2022

A new index measures the human impacts on Amazon waters

Ronaldo Ribeiro | Letícia Klein | Kevin Damasio | Laura Kurtzberg (Ambiental Media) 5 May 2022

Freshwater planetary boundary “considerably” transgressed: New research

Petro Kotzé 27 Apr 2022

In destroying the Amazon, big agribusiness is torching its own viability

Sarah Brown 7 Mar 2022

Amazon losing far more carbon from forest degradation than deforestation: Study

Graycen Wheeler 9 Feb 2022

Efforts to dim Sun and cool Earth must be blocked, say scientists

Shanna Hanbury 24 Jan 2022

Barrage of droughts weakens Amazon’s capacity to bounce back, study finds

Elizabeth Oliveira 15 Dec 2021
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With La Niña conditions back, is it good news for tropical forests?

Carolyn Cowan 22 Nov 2021

From flood to drought, Brazil’s Acre state swings between weather extremes

Leandro Chaves and Juliana Ennes 29 Oct 2021

‘Join us for the Amazon,’ Indigenous leaders tell IUCN in push for protection

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Sep 2021

2015-2016 El Niño caused 2.5 billion trees to die in just 1% of the Amazon

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 16 Aug 2021
Prolonged dry conditions have caused the worst drought in central and southern Brazil in almost a century. The Operational Land Imager (OLI) on NASA's Landsat 8 captured an image of Lago das Brisas on the Paranaíba River on June 17, 2021.

Lessons from Brazil’s São Paulo droughts (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 30 Jul 2021
Amazon rainforest canopy. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / mongabay

New index measuring rainforest vulnerability to sound alarm on tipping points

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 28 Jul 2021

Amazon and Cerrado deforestation, warming spark record drought in urban Brazil

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 22 Jul 2021

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