A decades-long project set out to simulate a future in which the changing climate could deplete the Amazon of rainfall.

Sebastião Salgado, a renowned photojournalist who died last week, spent decades capturing an Amazon that is fast disappearing ...

If pushed too far, vast stretches of tropical rainforest could see widespread tree deaths, or could transition to a new state, becoming drier, savanna-like woodlands. That would devastate some of ...

A record 67,000 square kilometres of primary rainforest was lost from the tropics in 2024, with global warming and El Niño ...

rom the air, far northern Queensland reveals itself in a cornucopia of colour: The blues of the Great Barrier Reef; the dark ...

The Amazon rainforest is able to endure decades of intense drought. Doing so means losing many trees, releasing stored carbon into the air.

But with illegal logging a critical threat, the new tools can use satellite data to detect subtle changes in its rainforest canopy in near real-time – already assessing 1.8m hectares ...

New technology is helping Peru fight against the illegal logging of its 68 million hectares of valuable tropical rainforest. Developed by the University of Sheffield, the technology uses satellite ...

The tropical rainforest is the most biodiverse biome on Earth, housing an astonishing variety of species due to its unique climate, characterized by abundant rainfall and sunlight.

The team was able to chart 60 years of data ... (Can a new way to measure tropical rainforest vulnerability help save them?) A version of this story appears in the April 2025 issue of National ...

Stone tools suggest humans lived in a tropical rainforest in present-day Ivory Coast roughly 150,000 years ago. Jimbob Blinkhorn, MPG Scientists have found that early humans lived in tropical ...