As deforestation increases in the Amazon, it will decrease precipitation in California and create drier conditions in ...

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 ...

How long would it take for the world's largest rainforest to burn down? If we don't do anything to stop it, we'll soon find out. The Amazon rainforest creates 20% of the Earth's oxygen. It's home to ...

The vast Amazon rainforest bore the brunt of the devastation, accounting for approximately 17.9 million hectares of the total ...

Brazil accounted for 54% of them, according to the country’s space agency, INPE, with fires mainly hitting the Amazon Rainforest, but also the Pantanal wetlands, the Cerrado savanna, and the ...

Federal crackdown on environmental crimes and a gold rally that’s sent prices to record highs has driven the industry into ...

Aerial view of an illegal fire in the Amazon rainforest on the banks of the BR-230 (Transamazon Highway), near the city of Labrea, Amazonas state, northern Brazil, taken on September 4, 2024. (Photo ...

A study reveals that fire emissions in the Amazon and Cerrado are largely driven by the smoldering combustion of woody debris ...

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Acres of rainforest are being decimated daily, and while trees in the Amazon are still holding about 56.8 billion metric tons of carbon, fires being intentionally set to clear land are tipping the ...

Rodrigo Agostinho, head of IBAMA, Brazil's federal environmental agency, for two years now, spoke with Mongabay about the ...

Wildfires — which spread quickly in ... The largest, most diverse tropical rainforest on Earth, the Amazon spans nine countries in South America. In Brazil’s Amazon region alone, more than ...