Tens of thousands of trees in the Amazon rainforest have been wiped out to prepare for a global summit on saving the environment, the latest in seeming climate-change hypocrisy. In northern Brazil, ...

Think of the destruction of Earth's rainforests and a familiar image may come to mind: fires or chainsaws tearing through enormous swathes of the Amazon, releasing masses of planet-warming carbon ...

The amount of tropical forest lost in 2024 was double that in 2023 and the highest in at least two decades as climate change made rainforests susceptible to uncontrollable fires. A record 67,000 ...

Tropical rainforests are hot and wet. They have high temperatures and heavy rainfall throughout the year. Tropical rainforests lie along the equator, mainly between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn ...