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

An archaeologist working in South America says he has not seen a blue sky for months - because vast swathes of the Amazon rainforest have been on fire since August. Researchers have, in the past ...

The researchers warned that forests, and all the carbon they store, are increasingly vulnerable to fire. Unlike wildfire 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 ...

Millions of hectares of forest are burning in the Amazon and the homes of indigenous communities and vulnerable rainforest species are being destroyed. Fires in this precious landscape have burned an ...

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

Fire hotspots detected by satellite in the ... and climate change could destabilize the Amazon rainforest, leading to widespread die-offs of trees across its southern and eastern regions.

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 ...

Spanning approximately 2.3 million square miles (6 million square kilometers) across eight South American countries, the Amazon Rainforest is the world’s largest tropical forest. This vast ...

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.