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 ...

The Amazon Rainforest is on fire. Or much of it, at least. On February 28, Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research announced that 2,940 fires had burned in the Brazilian Amazon over the c ...

Some regions in South America are experiencing many more days with extreme fire conditions, putting some of the continent's most important ecosystems -- such as the Amazon rainforest and the Gran ...

Sebastião Salgado, a renowned photojournalist who died last week, spent decades capturing an Amazon that is fast disappearing ...

Massive fires fuelled by climate change led global forest loss to smash records in 2024, according to a report issued on ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The Amazon Rainforest is on fire. Or much of it, at least. On February 28 ...

Read this story in Spanish here. The Amazon rainforest—home to one in 10 species on Earth—is on fire. As of last week, 9,000 wildfires were raging simultaneously across the vast rainforest of ...

NPR's John Otis has been traveling through the Amazon and ... (SOUNDBITE OF FIRE CRACKLING) OTIS: Until recently, Brazilian governments tried to clamp down on rainforest destruction.

Fires in Brazil's Amazon Rainforest Region Surge for Third Month ... Satellites detected 41,463 fire hot spots in Brazil's Amazon in September, the largest number for that month since 2010 ...

The Amazon rainforest may be able to survive long-term drought caused by climate change, but adjusting to a drier, warmer ...