Image: Amazon fires
The Amazon rainforest is burning.
The Amazon rainforest is burning.
Environment
Aug 27, 2019
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The Amazon basin cradles the largest rainforest in the world, and plays an essential role in regulating regional and even global climates.
Environment
Aug 26, 2019
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Blackened tree trunks lay smoldering on the charred ground as thick smoke chokes the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, a scene of devastation that is being repeated across the "lungs of the planet."
Environment
Aug 26, 2019
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Two of the industries involved in the infernos consuming the Amazon rainforest and drawing the attention of global powers gathered at the G7 meeting in France are familiar to diners worldwide: soy and beef.
Environment
Aug 25, 2019
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Forest fires in the Amazon are generating smoke that can be seen from space and may have caused a daytime blackout more than 1,700 miles away in the country's largest city.
Environment
Aug 21, 2019
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The diversity and ecology of African parasitoid wasps was studied for over a year during a project run by the Biodiversity Unit of the University of Turku in Finland. Parasitoid wasps are one of the animal groups that are ...
Ecology
Aug 14, 2019
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Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon increased 278 percent year-over-year in July, according to official data released Tuesday by a government institute embroiled in a row with President Jair Bolsonaro over the scale of ...
Environment
Aug 7, 2019
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It is in industrialised countries and regions of the world where one can find the highest concentrations of lead, the world's most widespread neurotoxical accumulative metal. Thus, it was presumed that the Amazon, the world's ...
Environment
Aug 5, 2019
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The effects of European consumption are being felt in Brazil, driving disastrous deforestation and violence.
Environment
Apr 26, 2019
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Plumes of air pollution generated from a rapidly expanding city within the Amazon rainforest are wafting hundreds of miles and degrading air quality in the pristine rainforest, according to a team of scientists.
Environment
Apr 25, 2019
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