The number of fires in the Amazon rainforest grew 30.5% in 2019 from the previous year ... weakening the environmental agency Ibama. INPE's fire monitoring program also identified rising number ...

Forest fires are common in the Amazon ... An analysis of Nasa satellite data this month indicated that the total fire activity in 2019 across the Amazon, not just Brazil, is close to the average ...

Preserving the Amazon rainforest ... but it is under threat from forest fires, mostly started to clear land for agriculture. Early numbers from this year's fire season show an increase, leading ...

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon drops by nearly 31% compared to last year. Forest loss in Brazil's Amazon dropped by 30.6% compared to the previous year, officials said Wednesday ...

That’s five times larger than the forest fires of 2019 when, under far-right ... This surge in fire comes one year before the Amazon city of Belem will host the annual U.N. climate conference ...

That's five times larger than the forest fires of 2019 when, under far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, rampant destruction of ...

An archaeologist working in South America says he has not seen a blue sky for months - because vast swathes of the Amazon rainforest have been on fire since August. Researchers have, in the past ...

In 2019, the Amazon rainforest was burning unprecedentedly ... A few days earlier, Brazilian police had arrested four members of the Alter do Chão Fire Brigade—a nonprofit known for, you know, putting ...

we cannot afford more damage to a major source of oxygen and biodiversity” France and the United Nations called on Thursday for the protection of the fire-plagued Amazon rainforest as Brazil's ...

According to NASA's Amazon fire forecast, the forest is so dry that the risk of wildfire for the coming months now exceeds the fire risk of 2005 and 2010 - both drought years that saw wildfires ...

When we were there, we had meetings with them and they talked about the fire brigade they wanted ... Indigenous territory in Brazil’s Amazon basin, calls the Indigenous community “guardians of the ...

That's five times larger than the forest fires of 2019 when, under far-right ... This surge in fire comes one year before the Amazon city of Belem will host the annual U.N. climate conference ...