Amazon tree loss may worsen both floods and droughts: study

Director of Institutional Giving At Amazon Frontlines

About Amazon Frontlines Amazon Frontlines (amazonfrontlines.org) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in the Amazon region of Ecuador. Amazon Frontlines fights the climate crisis by securing indigenous stewardship of the Amazon rainforest. We build power with Indigenous leaders to form a bulwark of resistance throughout the upper Amazon, working together deep in the forest, at our organizing hub in northeastern Ecuador, and in the halls …

Hot season gets hotter due to rainfall delay over tropical land in a warming climate

Tropical land generally experiences the hottest period (spring) in a year just before the onset of wet season. Previous studies suggested that in a warming climate, the wet season would come later, but its origin is debated and its impact on temperature remains unknown. Here, we find that the warming of hot season would be amplified under global warming, and refer to it as “hot-season-gets-hotter” phenomenon. The amplified hot season warming is …

Lawmakers just passed a controversial law that could change the Amazon forever: ‘An area the size of Costa Rica’

This newly passed law could have a devastating impact on the Amazon rainforest. What's happening? In early January, lawmakers in Mato Grosso, Brazil, voted to pass a law that would loosen environmental protections in the state and allow for massive amounts of deforestation. The law would reclassify certain areas of the Amazon as Cerrado areas and loosen protections by doing so. Existing "Mato Grosso properties sitting on the Amazon biome, which …

Amazon tree loss may worsen both floods and droughts: study

Deforestation in the Amazon causes more rain in the wet season and less rain in the dry season, according to new research published Wednesday underscoring the rainforest's "pivotal" role in regulating local and global climate.

91% of Brazilian Amazon deforestation last year was illegal, report finds

Nearly all deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon in the past year was illegal, a new report finds. Between August 2023 and July 2024, 91% of forest clearing in the Amazon lacked authorization, according to an analysis by the NGO Center of Life Institute (ICV). In the Cerrado, an expanding agricultural frontier and the world’s most biodiverse tropical savanna that covers a quarter of Brazil, the figure for unauthorized clearing was 51%. Brazilian…

Deforestation in the Amazon causes more rain in the rainy season and less rain in the dry season, according to new research published this Wednesday (5), which highlights the essential role of the forest in regulating the local and global climate. Read more (03/07/2025)