Thousands of fires are currently wreaking havoc in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. Many of them have been blazing for months, and it could take months more still to put them out. Although fires ...

Wildfires and extreme drought Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon — home to the largest swath of this rainforest — dropped 30.6% ...

According to a report issued Monday by the Fire Monitor, an initiative of the Annual Mapping Project of Land Use and Land Cover in Brazil (MapBiomas) in partnership with the Amazon Environmental ...

Since August 15, more than 9,500 fires have sparked in Brazil, most of them in the Amazon basin. The blazes can be seen from space, and the smoke even temporarily eclipsed the sun in Sao Paulo on ...

The Amazon rainforest, often called the “lungs of the world,” is one of the most vital ecosystems on the planet. It absorbs billions of tons of carbon dioxide each year and plays a key role in ...

New fires continue to crop up in the Amazon forest despite the Brazilian government's most recent efforts to stop the deforestation of the region. The National Space Research Institute (INPE ...

“The fund was set up to help local partners and the indigenous communities on the front lines protecting the Amazon.” Fires have been raging at a record rate in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest ...