By Maxwell Radwin Hidden within the Amazon Rainforest are rare, carbon-rich ecosystems known as peatlands, a type of swamp ...

The glaciers in the Andes of northern Peru are at ... role these play in climate change. Microscopic organisms found in the tropical peatlands of Peru’s northwestern Amazon are helping regulate ...

Half a century of oil drilling has left the Amazon rainforest scarred -and a new wave of fossil fuel extraction is coming ...

As reported by the BBC, the state government of Pará cleared out eight miles of Amazon rainforest to build the highway. The BBC’s article has pictures of the clear-cut forest floor where logs have ...

One-third of the Amazon rainforest has been degraded by ... increasingly frequent in the Amazon as land-use change and human-induced climate change progress, affecting tree mortality, fire ...

He earned a doctorate in meteorology from MIT in 1983, working alongside some of the earliest pioneers of climate modeling to understand the effects of climate change ... Amazon—from the Atlantic all ...

An eight-mile stretch of Amazon rainforest is being cleared to make space for a new four-lane highway that's being built in Brazil to ferry delegates to a climate conference later this year.