The media are crucial for disseminating information about climate change. However, the nature of the coverage varies being an alternative the dissemination and use of information in social networks. This article addresses the social platform Twitter and the sharing of content generated on climate change in the Amazon. The identification of interactions in social networks was based in recent years between 2015 - 2017 through trends topics and hashtags shared by Twitter profiles. The elaboration of the matrices, networks and graphs were developed in the software Gephi using the algorithm Force Atlas and Louvain. The results show that most of the profiles interact in a global sphere of information sharing focused on climate change highlighting the Amazon for its biodiversity and environmental degradation. Large communication vehicles are increasingly present in discussions of climate impacts and enable a large-scale broadcasting process based on interviews, testimonies, articles and scientific reports of man's unrestrained action on the environment. In addition, information sharing tends to prioritize words that are described as climate change factors such as Livestock (28%), Agriculture (22%), Greenhouse Gases (15%) and to a lesser extent by natural variability of the climate (6%). In general, discussions on digital media on climate change often occur in an environment that establishes an active communication field of scientific communication among users of the Twitter platform.
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