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 ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Alexis Damancio Silva can’t forget the hardship in his town of Puerto Narino in far southern Colombia last year when extreme drought nearly dried up the Amazon River.

They fear Donald Trump’s second administration will bring nothing good for the Amazon rainforest. Besides Trump’s Day 1 move to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, they fear he’ll cut ...

21, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File) Cut logs and wooden boards lie in an area opened by illegal loggers within the Renascer Reserve in the Amazon rainforest in Prainha, Para state, Brazil, on Nov.

With Donald Trump settling back into the White House, advocates for the Amazon worry about what his second term will mean for the rainforest. BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Alexis Damancio Silva can ...

Acres of rainforest are being decimated daily, and while trees in the Amazon are still holding about ... NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University ...

Aerial view of the Amazon Rainforest, near Manaus, the capital of the Brazilian state of Amazonas. Image via Neil Palmer/CIAT, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons ...