By one recent estimate, the trees of the Amazon rainforest pulled in carbon dioxide equivalent to the fossil fuel emissions of most of the nine countries that own or border the forest between 1980 ...

The pristine canopy of the Amazon rainforest is breathtaking when seen from the air. It's hard to describe just how big it is, but it is absolutely vast, spanning nine countries in South America.

But in Brazil's Amazon rainforest it has hit its highest level ... a major contributor to global warming - so cutting down trees can have a big impact on climate change. The UN says 420 million ...

The Amazon is the world’s largest rainforest. It covers some 5.5 million square kilometres, and spans nine countries. It is home to billions of trees, millions of animal species and more than ...

Image caption, Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest has been happening for a number of years. Trees don’t technically breathe, but they do respire, like we do. However, instead of taking in ...

The Amazon is being deliberately destroyed. Trees that have stood for hundreds of years are being chopped down and ... Every hectare of the Amazon that is destroyed pushes the rainforest closer to ...

This makes the remaining forest drier and more susceptible to fires, which in turn kills more trees. Scientists warn that if this cycle continues, parts of the Amazon could reach a tipping point ...

What the forest produces More than 25% of the western pharmaceuticals are manufactured from the ingredients sourced from Amazon rainforests. Nevertheless, less than 1% of the trees and plants in ...

A bonfire crackles in the center of an Indigenous open-air pavilion atop a hill in the Putumayo jungle, adding warmth to the ...

When most of us think about clearing away the Amazon rainforest, we have visions of chainsaws and scorched earth. In recent ...