Amazon Rainforest

The financial system urgently needs to integrate sustainable practices and operations, and promoting a carbon emissions market is a way to support environmental protection.

The razor-toothed fish are seen in the video ripping into its body.

The previously unknown creature does not spin webs like many other spiders but instead actively stalks its prey among the vegetation of the rainforest.

Without a system of carbon credits to support forest protection, many of the world's forests will succumb to development, logging, and commercial activities.

Experts explain that these endangered dolphins are usually non-aggressive, and will only attack if they feel under threat.

President Joe Biden pledged to mobilize $20 billion for the Amazon, but that promise remains unfilled. Now is the time to turn words into action by moving boldly on three fronts.

New research has found 38 percent of the remaining Amazon has been degraded by human actions, including forest fires, logging, and extreme drought.

Under Bolsonaro's presidency, an estimated 16,000 square miles of the Amazon rainforest have been lost. Can Lula end the deforestation as he promises?

Dom Phillips, who had been writing a book in the Amazon, went missing last week along with expert field guide Bruno Pereira.

Both fish - commonly referred to as South American darters - could disappear if the Brazilian government does not take immediate action, say scientists.

It had been more than a decade since Brazil recorded over 10,000 square kilometers (3,861.022 square miles) of deforestation in the Amazon in a year.

Ending violence and conserving forests are interconnected goals.

"What's at stake is the ability to advocate for human rights in our society," Steven Donziger said the day he began serving a six-month prison sentence.

"It's because of changes of the global local climate, especially. We have less humidity and less rainfall," said Petteri Taalas, secretary-general of the WMO.

With the Amazon rainforest no longer slowing the effects of global warming, but instead contributing to it, we now have an even narrower window in which to act.

Gordon Hempton, aka the Sound Tracker, talks to Newsweek about the importance of silence as the world starts churning again, and his quest to preserve natural vanishing soundscapes from the Amazon Rainforest to the world's first urban quiet park in Taiwan.

Data from the Manuas' port authorities shows that these are the highest flooding levels the area has seen since records began around 1900.

Satellite data recorded 6,803 fires in the Amazon in July, a 28 percent increase from the number of fires this time last year.

"2020 is set up to be a dangerous year for fires in the Amazon," NASA scientist Doug Morton said.

Some experts think that the hole formed as a result of natural processes, while others argue that humans may be partly to blame.

Earth's tropical forests are "time capsules" of human history stretching back hundreds of years.

South America's largest economy will bounce back. But how will it do so in a world wheres climate change looms larger every day?

Wasps belonging to the genus Acrotaphus are notable for their size as well as their striking coloration.

"Aggressive efforts to eliminate ignition sources and suppress wildfires will be critical to conserve southern Amazon forests," said the authors of a new study.

"Since 2010, mile upon mile of rainforest has been replaced with a wide range of commercial developments, including cattle ranching, logging and the palm oil industry."

"The precious Amazon is teetering on the edge of functional destruction and, with it, so are we," the editors of a leading scientific journal wrote.

Significant fire outbreaks in the Amazon, Australia and the Arctic Circle—among others—made headlines around the world this year.

According to the scientists, there are three main types of fire in the Amazon—all of which are caused my human activities.

The Amazon rainforest is important to the global climate because of its role in storing vast amounts of carbon dioxide.

Robert Dowling has taken a 287-pound bathtub with him on endurance challenges like crossing a Bolivian desert, sailing down the Amazon and summiting Mount Kilimanjaro. Only one final adventure remains.