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The world's largest tropical wetland is under threat, with scientists warning that devastating wildfires and a proposed commercial waterway could spell the "end of an entire biome". "Nowhere else ...

A record amount of the world's largest tropical wetland has been lost to the fires ... when about 11,935 sq km burned in the biome during the same period. To the north, the fires in the Brazilian ...

The civil action seeks compensation from three environmental offenders accused of using chainsaws and setting fires to clear around 6,400 ha of the biome in Corumbá.