The Amazon rainforest is a global hot spot of life and biodiversity. Spanning eight countries – Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana – this ...

According to the research, woody debris accounts for up to 75% of the total burned live ... fire emissions and hence air pollution in fire-prone areas like the Amazon rainforest and Cerrado ...

A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built ... "For us who live on the side of the highway, there will be no benefits.

The Amazon rainforest has been burning for ... peaking in late September), but farmers and loggers also purposefully set fire to the rainforest in order to clean land for industrial and ...

In 2023 there were 98,639 wildfires in the Amazon alone. The Amazon rainforest, too ... to detect details in remote areas or smaller fire outbreaks is limited. This new technology uses a type ...

we cannot afford more damage to a major source of oxygen and biodiversity” France and the United Nations called on Thursday for the protection of the fire-plagued Amazon rainforest as Brazil's ...