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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

When we were there, we had meetings with them and they talked about the fire brigade they wanted to develop, and they also talked about regrowing trees and reforesting.” The Amazon rainforest, which ...

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

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 ...

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

RURRENABAQUE, Bolivia—The day the fire came, Dario Mamio Serato remembers that he could not breathe. The Amazon rainforest, known as the lungs of the Earth, was an inferno. Acrid smoke engulfed ...