Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The drought outlook is dire for the Amazon region, and several of its rivers were already critically low by early August for this ...

The Amazon rainforest responded to the most severe drought ever recorded in the basin with an unexpected defense mechanism. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany, ...

Dr. Magali Nehemy stood on the banks of the Tapajós River in the Amazon rainforest when the community's chief—a man in his seventies who had lived there his whole life—looked out over the bare ...

In Brazil’s Maranhão state, the advance of monoculture and decades of forest destruction have driven a shift in precipitation patterns, diminishing rains and drying out springs that feed important ...

YURIMAGUAS, Peru – The Sacred Headwaters Alliance brings together thirty Indigenous nations of the upper Amazon in Ecuador and Peru, who are self-organizing to defend a forest devastated by unchecked ...

The Amazon region is a global hotspot of biodiversity and plays a key role in the climate system because of its ability to store large amounts of carbon and its influence on the global water cycle.

The Amazon rainforest is a biological jackpot, a climate regulator, and a living history book all at once. Scientists are still learning new things about it every year, and what's already known is ...

Peru's Amazon is home to a 'Boiling River,' Shanay-Timpishka, reaching scalding temperatures of 85-100°C, hundreds of kilometres from any volcano. This natural wonder, believed to be heated by deep ...

Researchers in Brazil are building a vast IoT network based on RISC-V microcontrollers, edge AI and long-range LoRa communications to monitor the Amazon rainforest and gather real-time environmental ...