Unlike wildfire in North America, where blazes sometimes reach treetops and expand from there, in the Amazon rainforest, fire spreads mostly through leaves on the ground, causing less harm.

But last year, US President Joe Biden pledged to request Congress to contribute US$500 million to the Amazon Fund over five ...

A report suggests that further degradation of the Amazon could turn one of the world’s most important carbon sinks into a ...

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 ...

The area that burned between January and mid-October 2024 represents an 846 per cent increase over the same period in 2023.

In 2023, huge wildfires raged in Canada, Greece, and the Amazon. And research shows that human-caused climate change and land use changes significantly increased the odds of these record-setting ...

The city of Cali, in Colombia, is hosting the UN’s 16th biodiversity summit, known as Cop16. The summit, which runs until ...

One-third of the Amazon rainforest has been degraded by a combination ... rainforest has been degraded in some way by humans. Fire, timber extraction, and edge effects degraded at least 5.5 ...

The mural was painted with colors made with the ash from forest fires in Brazil, including the Amazon, where swathes of ...

Miscarriages, premature babies and harm to mothers caused by the climate crisis are a “blind spot” in action plans, according ...

AN ANCIENT city that was abandoned in the 18th century has finally been unearthed deep inside the Amazon rainforest. Located in the modern Brazilian state of Rondônia, the Portuguese settlement ...