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 ...

In the Amazon, fire outbreaks grew out of control ... since rainforest moisture usually protects the rainforest from fire. “This is very frightening,” Alencar said. In August 2024, Rodrigo ...

A study reveals that fire emissions in the Amazon and Cerrado are largely driven by the smoldering combustion of woody debris ...

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 ...

More than one third of the Amazon rainforest may have been degraded by ... For the study, they examined the impact of fire, logging, drought and changes to habitat along the forest borders ...

Adding to the crisis, fire outbreaks, many suspected to be ... Açaí is harvested sustainably from the Amazon Rainforest in the state of Amapá. Açaí makes up a key segment of the bioeconomy.

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 ...