Large parts of the Amazon’s iconic rainforest are nearing an irreversible “tipping point” and collapse in less than 30 years due to deforestation and climate change, scientists warn in a new paper ...

“A major question is whether a large-scale collapse of the Amazon forest system could actually happen within the twenty-first century.” (Source: Bernardo M. Flores, et al, Critical Transitions in the ...

BALTIMORE -- The fire department says one person is dead and another was unaccounted after a weather-related building collapse at an Amazon distribution warehouse on Baltimore's southeast side, the ...

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. — A newly formed state task force will soon start looking at safety standards for warehouses in Illinois. This comes in response to the December 2021 Amazon collapse that killed six ...

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A new study weighed a range of threats and variables in an effort to map out where the rainforest is most vulnerable. Up to half of the Amazon rainforest could transform into grasslands or weakened ...

The terras caídas phenomenon also threatens riverside communities in the Brazilian Amazon, with several incidents in recent years in which houses, schools, churches and public squares were swept away ...

Up to half of the Amazon rainforest could transform into grasslands or weakened ecosystems in the coming decades, a new study found, as climate change, deforestation and severe droughts like the one ...