Known as the “hypertropics,” this climate is defined by hot drought conditions—and hasn’t been seen on Earth for tens of ...

The Amazon rainforest currently has a few days or weeks of hot drought conditions per year, but researchers say this could ...

The Amazon rainforest is slowly transitioning to a new, hotter climate with more frequent and intense droughts—conditions ...

As global temperatures keep rising, any drop in the Amazon’s ability to store carbon could speed up warming worldwide. In ...

The Amazon is facing a hotter, drier future, with rising drought stress threatening forests that help regulate Earth’s ...

As the global climate warms and the dry season lengthens, signs of a shift towards a hypertropical climate pattern are ...

The Congo Basin, the world’s largest tropical rainforest after the Amazon, is under mounting pressure. The Congo’s vast green ...

A UC Berkeley-led analysis of tree mortality after two recent Amazonian droughts shows that “hot drought” conditions, which are becoming more frequent, are leading to tree dieoffs and reducing the ...

The United Nations Environment Programme on Dec. 10 announced its five “2025 Champions of the Earth,” the U.N.’s highest ...

The Amazon rainforest is moving toward a climate similar to conditions from 10 to 40 million years ago, when global ...

The Amazon rainforest is slowly transitioning to a new, hotter climate with more frequent and intense droughts — conditions that haven't been seen on ...