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 ...

Hancock advanced this claim in his 2019 book 'America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilisation'. Hancock suggested that the Amazon rainforest is not entirely natural - and that it was ...

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 ...

More than one third of the Amazon rainforest may have been degraded by human activity and drought, researchers said on Thursday, and action is needed to protect the critically important ecosystem.

The area burned or razed last month is 66% smaller than that in August 2022 The rate of deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest has dropped by 66.1% this August compared to the same month last ...

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 — 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.