In the Amazon, fire outbreaks grew ... are directly related to forest destruction; historically, deforesters set fires to burn the remains of trunks and branches before growing pasture.

The Amazon rainforest has been burning for ... peaking in late September), but farmers and loggers also purposefully set fire to the rainforest in order to clean land for industrial and ...

we cannot afford more damage to a major source of oxygen and biodiversity” France and the United Nations called on Thursday for the protection of the fire-plagued Amazon rainforest as Brazil's ...