At the time of writing, Brazil's space agency Inpe reports that there have been almost 85,000 fires in the rainforest so far. So what does this mean for the many animals who call the Amazon home?
An area of Amazon rainforest roughly the size of a football ... a habitat for perhaps one-tenth of all species of plants and animals. And it is where one million indigenous people live, hunting ...
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 ...