Fires in the Amazon rainforest, during the summer months, aren't new. But this year, it's the worst on record. While Brazil's government has called warnings about the fires "sensationalist" and ...

2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change. A warming climate ...

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 ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change.

While deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon plunged during that period, the rainforest remains under threat from land grabbing, illegal gold mining, diminishing rainfall, and outbreaks of fire ...

It comes weeks after ... the rainforest has suffered losses at an accelerated rate since he took office in January. Meanwhile, US space agency Nasa said that overall fire activity in the Amazon ...

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 ...