This expansive forest stretches across several South American countries, breathing life into the very atmosphere we depend on ...

The Amazon Rainforest The Amazon Rainforest is often referred to as the "lungs of the Earth," due to its vast capacity to ...

Sadly, the Amazon rainforest is a rapidly disappearing legacy ... important role in regulating the levels of carbon dioxide and oxygen in the atmosphere. With such high levels of carbon emissions ...

The Amazon rainforest lost an estimated 5 million acres ... putting a major source of the world's oxygen under extreme stress. A top Brazilian official says the government will reject the $20 ...

Their ability to survive both oxygen-rich and oxygen-poor conditions ... microbes and ecosystems in the lush and magnificent Amazon rainforest is the honor of my life, which I aim to use in ...

The study highlights the urgent need to safeguard global tropical wetlands from human impact. Complex organisms, thousands of ...

we cannot afford more damage to a major source of oxygen and biodiversity” France and the United Nations called on Thursday for the protection of the fire-plagued Amazon rainforest as Brazil's ...

It is the largest tropical rainforest in the world and is important for the role it plays in absorbing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen. Image caption, Almost 60% of the Amazon rainforest is in ...

The Amazon rain forest – the lungs which produces 20% of our planet's oxygen – is on fire,” Macron wrote in a tweet Thursday. “It is an international crisis.