By Fernanda Wenzel South American countries registered 511,575 fire outbreaks in 2024, the highest number since 2010. Brazil ...

2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that's a critical counterweight to climate change. A warming climate ...

Wildfires in Brazil last year consumed a total area larger than all of Italy, a monitor reported Wednesday, as the country continues to battle blazes often set by farmers and ranchers illegally ...

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 ...

2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change. A warming climate ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change.

Brazil experienced more fire activity in the 2000s - with 2005 seeing more than 142,000 fires in the first eight months of the year. Forest fires are common in the Amazon during the dry season ...

Inpe said it had detected more than 72,000 fires so far this year Swathes of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil are on fire. The sky in São Paulo turned black due to smoke drifting from the fires ...

Flanked by giant ferns in the forest, Biden said the fight ... ships grounded in one of the Amazon River’s main tributaries and fire damage. He also passed over a wildlife refuge for endangered ...

While deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon plunged during that period, the rainforest remains under threat from land grabbing, illegal gold mining, diminishing rainfall, and outbreaks of fire ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change.