Wildfires and extreme drought Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon — home to the largest swath of this rainforest — dropped 30.6% compared to the previous year, the lowest level of destruction in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Every hectare of the Amazon that is destroyed pushes the rainforest closer to collapse ... are finding it increasingly tough to cope with the pressures of land grabbing, fires, deforestation, illegal ...

With Donald Trump settling back into the White House, advocates for the Amazon worry about what his second term will mean for ...

24, 2024. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros, File) BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that ...