In August 2024, a wildfire broke out in Acará, a rural municipality in Brazil’s eastern Amazon state of Pará. Local civil ...

The Amazon rainforest, often called the lungs of the Earth, is facing one of its most dangerous moments in modern history as massive fires swept across large areas in 2024 and released more carbon ...

Every time humans cut into the Amazon rainforest or burn or destroy parts of it, they're making people sick. It's an idea Indigenous people have lived by for thousands of years. Now a new study in the ...

Brazil experienced historic fires last year, particularly in the Amazon, the largest tropical rainforest on the planet - Copyright AFP Pablo PORCIUNCULA Brazil ...

The area of Amazon rainforest lost to fires in Brazil in July fell 65 percent compared to a year ago, the MapBiomas monitoring platform said Wednesday, boosting the government as it prepares to host ...

Historic forest fires in Brazil last year scorched through an area larger than the size of Italy, recording a burned area some 60 percent higher than average of the last four decades, said a report ...