Rainforest that was cleared with fire for soy and cattle farming in Brazil. Daniel Beltra/The Image Bank Our planetary lungs are in deep trouble, and it's going to take a combination of factors, including politics, to save them, says the author of a new book about the role of the Amazon jungle in g...

Two early-bird predictions call for another above-average hurricane season, but Spring is still a wild card of a season and conditions may change by May.