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

As deforestation increases in the Amazon, it will decrease precipitation in California and create drier conditions in ...

A study reveals that fire emissions in the Amazon and Cerrado are largely driven by the smoldering combustion of woody debris. This crucial discovery highlights the significant influence of fuel ...

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 nine years. The improvement ...

revealed that samples collected at a few of the sites contained evidence of charcoal — a byproduct of fire. Most likely, ancient humans were setting fires in the Amazon as an early form of ...

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 ...

Brazil’s INPE space research agency data showed deforestation soaring 29.5% to 9,762 square kilometers for the 12 months through July 2019 Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose to ...

Rainforest Trust, Amazon Watch, Greenpeace and Earth Alliance. You can also raise awareness about the Amazon fire crisis by posting on social media using the hashtags #ClimateCrisis and # ...