As deforestation increases in the Amazon, it will decrease precipitation in California and create drier conditions in ...

A hemisphere away, the Amazon rainforest continues to reel from ... But scientists tell us that the Amazon has reached a tipping point of no return: with degradation and deforestation from ...

A carbon markets investor backed by Swiss-trading house Mercuria said on Wednesday it had joined with two non-profits to ...

By simulating the future atmosphere, scientists hope to understand whether trees will continue to act as the lungs of the ...

If this rate of deforestation continues, the Amazon will reach its tipping point and will no longer be able to sustain itself as a rainforest and the world's largest carbon sink. The effects would ...

deforestation and fires mean the Amazon forest system could "soon reach a tipping point, inducing large-scale collapse". In a patch of mature rainforest in the heart of the Amazon near Manaus ...

Renowned climate scientist Professor James Hansen has warned that current warming targets are "dead" and the UK could be ...