Last year, 3,088 square kilometres of the rainforest were destroyed during the same period. The Amazon plays an essential role in the planet's oxygen and carbon dioxide cycles, absorbing vast ...

It is often called "the lungs of the planet" due to its essential role in making oxygen and reducing carbon dioxide. Around 60% of the rainforest is located in Brazil and is also home to about ...

analysed the pollens to understand how the tropical rainforest community evolved in response to such extreme global warming... The climate was also monitored by analysing oxygen isotopes in fossil ...

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 ...