BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging ...

a world heritage site and the planet’s largest tropical rainforest protected area. This area is currently being deforested at an alarming rate as a result of land grabbing, deliberate fires and ...

Some of the UK's rarest wildlife is being "torched alive" and pushed closer to extinction after weeks of intense grass fires, ...

For more than three weeks, devastating fires have torn through Brazil and ravaged the largest tropical rainforest in the world. As a result, billowing clouds of smoke have engulfed surrounding ...

The world's largest rainforest is ablaze. On Tuesday, a new fire started every minute in Brazil. Since August 15, more than 9,500 fires have sparked in Brazil, most of them in the Amazon basin.

said the fires were “a consequence of the increase in deforestation seen in recent figures.” As the largest tropical rainforest in the world, the Amazon is a vital carbon store that slows down ...

Tropical rainforests are hot and wet ... There are many causes of rainforest deforestation, which leads to loss of habitats, soil erosion, flooding and global warming. International agreements ...

Pope Francis and over 200 bishops, indigenous leaders and climate change experts convened in the Vatican on Monday to study the problems in the Amazon rainforest region. As fires in the Amazon ...

The Amazon is the world’s largest tropical rainforest and is considered key ... Risks to the forest drew global concern in August when fires raged through the Amazon, drawing sharp criticism ...

The Amazon Rainforest is the world’s largest tropical rainforest, famed for its biodiversity. The broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome covers most of northwestern Brazil and ...