Wildfires are burning at a record rate in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, creating a plume of smoke so large that it can be seen from space. A government monitoring agency said Brazil has seen a record ...

Fires in the Amazon rainforest continue despite a ban on burning. Over half of Brazil's fires this year have taken place in the rainforest.

A new study by researchers at the European Commission's Joint Research Center reveals that the Amazon rainforest has just undergone its most devastating forest fire season in over two decades, which ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Massive fires fueled by climate change led global forest loss to smash records in 2024, according to a report issued on Wednesday. Loss of tropical pristine forests alone reached ...

The drive to open up more land for farmers in Brazil is helping to contribute to the conditions driving the fires in the Amazon rainforest.

"Human influences are so profound." New study uncovers concerning phenomenon in Amazon rainforest: 'All measures are changing' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Editorial - Catastrophic fires in the Amazon rainforest made global headlines, but since then NASA has noted that right now there are actually many more fires in parts of Africa than in Brazil.

Upward of 26,000 fires are reported to have blazed in the Amazon rainforest just this month–but these aren’t wildfires. Much like Donald Trump, far-right Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has relaxed ...