"Human influences are so profound." New study uncovers concerning phenomenon in Amazon rainforest: 'All measures are changing' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Every time humans cut into the Amazon rainforest or burn or destroy parts of it, they’re making people sick. It’s an idea Indigenous people have lived by for thousands of years. Now a new study in the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The first time Virgilio Viana saw the Amazon up close, he was a 16-year-old with a backpack, two school friends and very little sense of what he ...

Between 2002 and 2015, forest loss in Brazil’s southern Amazon reduced the amount of rainfall during the dry season by more than 5%, a recent study found. Researchers studying how deforestation in the ...