More than 75% of Amazon rainforest near tipping point, may transform into dry savanna: Study
Researchers say it is not too late to act; reducing deforestation will protect the forest’s threatened parts and boost Amazon rainforest …
The Amazon fire: This and next time
Fires like the current one lead to wholesale irreversible changes in the structure and composition of forest ecosystems, impoverishing both their …
Will Jair Bolsonaro destroy the Amazon and its Indians?
It remains to be seen whether Brazil’s President-Elect will act on his pre-poll statements vis-à-vis Amazonia and its natives. …
Fight fire with trade: How Europe can help save the Amazon
The EU is already responsible for hefty imports from the Mercosur bloc; it imports 10 million tonnes of soy (for livestock feed) and over 200,000 …
‘Due to the Amazon fires, we will lose the battle against climate change’
Down To Earth speaks to Aline Carrara, Brazilian researcher, social scientist and conservation practitioner with a focus on Amazonia about the …
Deforestation embargoes in Brazilian Amazon not followed in over 85% area: Report
Embargoes helped revive only 13% forest area
Brazil lost rainforest the size of Jamaica in 2019-2020: Institute
There was a 9.5 per cent jump in deforestation of the Brazillian Amazon since 2019, in line with President Jair Bolsonaro’s anti-…
Nasa satellite imagery finds tremendous changes in Amazon in last 40 years
The scale of losses in forests land, increase in pasture land, shift in land use policy driven by economic forces are seen nowhere else in the world
What an Indian environmentalist in Brazil has to say on the Amazon fires
Kerala-born environmental scientist Shaji Thomas, who has been working in the Amazon for the past 25 years, shares his thoughts on the infernos …
Why fires that scorched the Amazon are a planetary emergency
From the Arctic to the Amazon, fires are raging at an unprecedented scale, stoking an unfathomable fear: is the planet staring at an irreversible …
Climate change has a history of disrupting civilisations, study finds
Major shifts in temperature and rainfall in the first millennium affected agriculture and also caused the decline of many indigenous groups in …
Literature from the Congo Basin offers ways to address the climate crisis
Literature offers ways to communicate about complex issues like the current global climate emergency
Statistic of the decade: The massive deforestation of the Amazon
8.4 million soccer fields of land deforested in the Amazon over the past decade
Amazonian wildlife: Collateral damage of the inferno
The fires that raged and are still raging in the Amazon rainforest, have had an impact on not just human lives but also animals
African grasslands are meant to burn – we can't let this distract from the Amazon fires
The world should be more bothered about the Amazon than about the fires in Africa's savnnahs
Amazon new Africa headquarters being built on sacred land: Indigenous communities protest
Environmental concerns were disregarded while granting the go-ahead to the project
The dreaded rainforest shift
The implications of the world’s largest rainforest competing with human-generated greenhouse gases are alarming
Amazon fires declined in September, but deforestation persists: Amazon Watch
The outbreak of fires in the rainforest declined 19.6 per cent compared to the same period last year
What’s the record for how long it’s ever rained without stopping?
Rainfall is “measurable” if it adds up to 0.01 inch (0.25 millimeters) or more
Commitments fall short: Amazonian indigenous people slam CoP26
Rather than taking meaningful action, CoP26 has provided powerful political and corporate actors the opportunity to cement false solutions, …
‘The Yanomami need the world’s support to bring pressure on Bolsonaro’
Down To Earth talks to Davi Kopenawa, the ‘Dalai Lama of the Amazon Rainforest’
Don’t let Bolsonaro’s Brazil join you, non-profits urge OECD
Non-profits criticise Brazil’s candidacy to join the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development while dismantling socio-…
Look how oil spill affects health, environment in Brazil
Oil spill has spread across 2,500 kilometres since September, and has reached 92 municipalities and 14 conservation units in nine states
'Amazon region under threat from oil drilling, mining'
Sacred Headwaters of the Amazon, considered to be the most biodiverse terrestrial ecosystem on Earth, is witnessing expansion of new fossil fuel …
How Brazil can beat the odds and restore a huge swathe of the Amazon
Native seed cultivation could represent a valuable source of income for local communities, boosting both conservation and the local economy