Amazon rainforest deforestation is reshaping the planet’s climate. It affects rainfall, raises global temperatures, and ...

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

As seen in the graph below ... Destroying the Amazon will change the climate worldwide About 60 percent of the Amazon rainforest is located in Brazil. And it's teetering on the edge of a tipping ...

The study shows that future climate change may lead to hotter and drier conditions in the Amazon rainforest that reduces the Amazon carbon sink, in other words, carbon dioxide absorption by plants.

Nearly 40% of the areas of the Amazon rainforest most critical to curbing climate change have not been granted special government protection, as either nature or indigenous reserves, according to ...