The Amazon is the world's largest tropical rainforest. It spreads over nine Latin American countries and is often called the lungs of the planet. So, the disappearance of the large swathes of forest is quite concerning. WION tells you what's at stake.

Why is Amazon Rainforest disappearing?

Undercutting Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's pledge at the COP26 summit, deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest has surged to a 15-year high. Questioning the proportion of the released data, Bolsonaro said, "Is there illegal deforestation?

Bolsonaro blames countries buying Brazilian timber for Amazon deforestation

Scientists have confirmed that the Amazon rainforest is now emitting more carbon dioxide than it is able to absorb. Watch this report to know more.

Amazon Rainforest: Parts of Amazon becomes source of Carbon Dioxide

According to a new study, parts of the Amazon rainforest are now releasing more carbon dioxide than they absorb, disrupting an important balancing act that signals a worsening of the climate crisis.

Amazon rainforest emitting more CO2 than it absorbs in some parts

Portions of the Amazon rainforest are now emitting more carbon dioxide than they absorb — a troubling sign for the fight against climate change, a new study suggests.

Parts of the Amazon go from absorbing carbon dioxide to emitting it

Heavy rains in the Amazon Rainforest are causing rivers to reach record levels in the rainy cross-section of the Amazon river. The Brazilian geological service confirmed that the water levels are set to reach a record 30 meters, the highest level since records began in 1902.

Amazon rivers in Brazil are swelling to record levels

Deforestation in the Amazon, the world's largest rainforest, rose by 17 per cent last year, with wildfires, beef production and logging causing forested areas roughly the size of El Salvador to disappear, according to new data published on Wednesday.

Deforestation in world's largest rainforest Amazon rose 17% in 'dire' 2020

According to Rainforest Foundation Norway's (RFN) analysis, humans have degraded or destroyed roughly two-thirds of the world's original tropical rainforest cover - raising alarm that a key natural buffer against climate change is quickly vanishing.

Data reveals, two-thirds of tropical rainforest destroyed or degraded globally

The Amazon rainforest, which produces about 20 per cent of the Earth's atmosphere's oxygen, will collapse and largely become a dry, shrubby plain in next 45 years.

Amazon rainforest will vanish by 2064, new study predicts

Researchers have found thousands of rock art pictures that show gigantic Ice Age creatures like mastodons, among others. These artworks in Amazon rainforest in Colombia were probably made about 11,800 to 12,600 years ago, according to a press release from researchers at the Britain's University of Exeter.

Amazing 8-mile-long art work of ice age beasts found in Amazon rainforest

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has faced mounting criticism over inaction in the Amazon rainforest, where illegal felling of trees has increased recently, especially during the pandemic.

Brazil will track illegal Amazon wood exports using isotopes: Bolsonaro at BRICS summit

Brazil has mobilized more than 4,000 soldiers to patrol its northern coast near the jungle border with French Guiana for trafficking of drugs, weapons and gold among other crimes, which are rampant in the remote Amazon rainforest region.

Brazil military patrols northern Amazon border region to curb drugs and weapons trafficking

Brazilian Vice President Hamilton Mourao challenged actor and environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio Wednesday to an eight-hour hike in the Amazon, saying he wanted to show the Hollywood star the rainforest is not actually burning.

Brazil vice-president challenges actor Leonardo Dicaprio to a hike in Amazon

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday called the fires in Amazon rainforest a “lie” while vehemently denying the existence of any fire in the region. This stands in stark opposition to the data divulged by his own government, which show thousands of fires in the region.

While Amazon records 10,000 fires in the first 10 days of August, Brazilian President Bolsonaro terms it a 'lie'

Brazil’s Amazon rainforests have witnessed a 28 per cent increase in the number of forest fires in July compared to the same period last year. As per data from the country’s National Institute for Space Research, 6,803 fires were recorded in the month of July alone, compared to 5,318 last year.

Environmentalists shudder as Amazon rainforest witnesses record number of fires in July

Amazon rainforest has been in the headlines lately owing to the record rate of deforestation in the region, which threatens local human and animal habitats, while increasing the risk of natural disasters.

Brazil fires official who divulged details of record-deforestation in the Amazon

Brazil's military delivered protective material and medicines on Tuesday (June 30) by helicopter to isolated Amazon indigenous communities bordering Venezuela and tested frightened members for COVID-19.

Brazil military moves to protect Indigenous people from COVID-19 deep in Amazon forest

Forget hydroxychloroquine. Try tea of jambu, also know as the toothache plant, that villagers in the eastern Amazon believe will help you keep new coronavirus at bay.

Amazon villagers take herbal tea to fight COVID-19

On the occasion of World Environment Day, we bring you the story of a Venezuelan Charles Brewer who is tirelessly working towards saving the Amazon rainforest since his college days. Watch report

World Environment Day: Charles Brewer is preserving Amazon rainforest since college

Indigenous groups from nine countries in the Amazon basin called on Wednesday (May 6) for donations to help protect 3 million rainforest inhabitants who are vulnerable to the spread of the novel coronavirus because they lack adequate access to healthcare.

Amazon indigenous groups launch international fund to fight coronavirus

A new study has revealed that the trees in the world's largest rainforest are losing their ability to absorb carbon. The study tracked 300,000 trees over 30 years, providing the first large-scale evidence of the decline in carbon uptake by the world’s tropical forests.

World's largest rainforest losing its ability to absorb carbon: Study

Illegal loggers in the Amazon ambushed an indigenous group that was formed to protect the forest and shot dead a young warrior and wounded another, leaders of the Guajajara tribe in northern Brazil said on Saturday.

Amazon: Illegal loggers kill Amazon land defender in ambush, wound another

The fires that burned through the Amazon rainforest last month sparked international outcry and offers of help, but as world leaders meet in New York, the planet's largest rainforest remains engulfed in flames.

As global leaders meet, the Amazon rainforest burns

A Human Rights Watch report on Tuesday (September 17) found that more than 300 people have been killed over the past decade in conflicts over the use of land and resources in the Amazon, many by organised criminal networks profiting from illegal deforestation.

Hundreds killed in Brazil's Amazon over land, resources in past decade -report

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