Brazil anticipates high-risk wildfires in the Amazon and Pantanal in 2025 after a record drought. The government is expanding fire brigades and encouraging prescribed burns to mitigate fires.

Brazil is home to the world’s greatest diversity of amphibians: Of the more than 8,000 species known worldwide, some 1,200 ...

While the red listing of more mushrooms and their relatives has been welcomed, the results paint a worrying picture. Almost a ...

A new CDC-led study identifies deforestation as a leading indicator of Ebola virus spillover. Using machine learning and two decades of satellite data, researchers found that forest loss and ...

Once the effects of drought are factored in ... under the combined pressures of regional deforestation and global climate change,” they said. “The changes are happening much too rapidly ...

Resurrection plants like Selaginella lepidophylla can survive months of drought (Credit: Alamy) To protect crops from rising droughts, scientists are looking to the genes of a small group of ...

Deforestation, farming and climate-fuelled fires are driving increasing threats ... "As we lose fungi, we impoverish the ecosystem services and resilience they provide, from drought and pathogen ...

Civil society groups and academics urged governments Thursday to take actual steps toward fulfilling a stalled pledge to end deforestation before this year's UN climate summit in the Brazilian Amazon.