Three recent South American studies emphasize the importance of intact forests to healthy habitat and a stable climate — both locally, and at a great distance. The first study found that forest ...

In places like the western Amazon, intact forests climb mountainsides, giving species altitudinal ladders to survive climate change.” Dani man in Indonesian papua. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

There has been an 80% increase in fires in the Amazon this year. But it's not the only big forest people consider to be part of the lungs of the planet.

In the 1990s, intact tropical forests removed about 46 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, declining to an estimated 25 billion tonnes in the 2010s, the study said.

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The Amazon rainforest lost an estimated 5 million acres in 2020. ABC News. Video. Live. Shows. Shop. ... "There is still probably 80% of the Amazon intact, so we have room to maneuver." ...

There is a doomsday scenario for the burning Amazon -- the irreversible point at which the tropical land can no longer sustain itself as a flourishing, vital rainforest. What's less certain is ...

A tract of the Amazon jungle burns as it is cleared by loggers and farmers in Porto Velho, Brazil August 24, 2019. Reuters BRASILIA – Humans have degraded or destroyed roughly two-thirds of the ...

Wolfe and his colleagues arrived at an estimate that an average increase of 1° Celsius (1.8° Fahrenheit) during the dry season in the Amazon will reduce the average survival rate in birds by 63%.

The vast Amazon rainforest is one of the biggest subjects of concern. ... Still, both intact forests and managed forests are losing their resilience over time at similar rates.