However, it updated its position on Friday, saying satellite data now showed it was the "most active fire year in that region since 2010". Why the Amazon rainforest helps fight climate change This ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Aqua satellite shows how the carbon monoxide from the Amazon wildfires is affecting the rest of the world. As the 'Lungs of the Planet ...

South American countries registered 511,575 fire outbreaks in 2024 ... with fires mainly hitting the Amazon Rainforest, but also the Pantanal wetlands, the Cerrado savanna, and the country ...

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose to its highest in ... up enforcement efforts assisted by high-resolution satellite imaging. The minister said he would meet governors of Amazon ...

The Amazon rainforest has been burning for ... peaking in late September), but farmers and loggers also purposefully set fire to the rainforest in order to clean land for industrial and ...

More than one third of the Amazon rainforest may have been degraded by ... For the study, they examined the impact of fire, logging, drought and changes to habitat along the forest borders ...

revealed that samples collected at a few of the sites contained evidence of charcoal — a byproduct of fire. Most likely, ancient humans were setting fires in the Amazon as an early form of ...

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 ...