Scientists are on high alert that the Amazon is careening toward a destructive fire season. Parts of Brazil and its typically lush rainforest are parched by drought and loaded with fire-kindling ...

Satellite images appear to show a new highway cutting through the rainforest in the Brazilian state set to host the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference. The images, taken in by ...

The delicate ecosystem in the Amazon rainforest is threatened by drought. A series of record-breaking wildfires are currently burning in several regions in Brazil, threatening residents and some ...

The fate of the Amazon rainforest may rest on the results of Brazil's vote on Sunday After record deforestation and environmental deregulation in the past few years, the result of the Brazilian ...

For weeks, we’ve seen headlines saying the Amazon rainforest is burning.But something unexpected happens when you map satellite data showing both the fires this year and those that have burned ...

Brazil's President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is heading to the COP27 summit this week, to reassure the world that Amazon rainforest is in safe hands. Accessibility links.

The rainforest’s first major fire of 2021 occurred more than a week earlier than last year, according to Matt Finer, a senior research specialist at the non-profit Amazon Conservation, who leads ...

Aerial view of an area of Amazon rainforest deforested by illegal fire in the municipality of Labrea, Amazonas State, Brazil, Aug. 20, 2024. Evaristo Sa/AFP via Getty Images ...