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Amazon rainforest deforestation nearly doubles — environmentalists 'alarmed'
A total of 390 square miles of forest was burned in the first 29 days of April, according to Brazil's national space research agency.
Brazil government hid surge in Amazon deforestation ahead of UN climate summit
The Amazon region lost 5,100 square miles of rainforest between August 2020 and July 2021 — a 22 percent increase and the worst in 15 years, according to government data.
Over 10,000 species risk extinction in Amazon, says landmark report
Produced by the Science Panel for the Amazon (SPA), the 33-chapter report brings together research on the world's largest rainforest from 200 scientists from across the globe.
Bolsonaro downplays Amazon fires, accuses NGOs of blocking land titling
BRASÍLIA - President Jair Bolsonaro said late on Wednesday Brazil was being “disproportionately” criticized for fires in the Amazon rainforest and Pantanal wetlands, at a time when many places around...
Battle on to save Brazil’s tropical wetlands from flames
BRASILIA, Brazil — A vast swath of a vital wetlands is burning in Brazil, sweeping across several national parks and obscuring the sun behind dense smoke. Preliminary figures from the...
Brazil's plan to protect Amazon is having opposite effect
NOVO PROGRESSO, Brazil — In May, facing urgent international demands for action after a string of massive wildfires in the Amazon, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro put the army in charge...
Amazon continues to burn in 2020 despite promises to save it
NOVO PROGRESSO, Brazil — A year ago this month, the forest around the town of Novo Progresso erupted into flames — the first major blazes in the Brazilian Amazon’s dry...
Scientists worried after Amazon rainforest sees huge surge in fires
Thousands of fires have erupted in the Amazon rainforest, Brazil's space agency has reported, threatening a repeat of the catastrophic blazes that devastated the region last year. The National Institute...
Destruction of tropical forests worldwide increased in 2019
The worldwide destruction of tropical forests increased last year, according to a recent study. Data recorded by the environmental research group World Resources Institute and the University of Maryland revealed...
Brazil launches military operations to protect Amazon rainforest
BRASILIA - Brazil deployed thousands of soldiers to protect the Amazon rainforest on Monday, taking precautions to avoid spreading the novel coronavirus, as the government mounts an early response to...
Meet the scientists meticulously planting trees to combat climate change
Destruction of the forests can be swift. Regrowth is much, much slower.
Brazil slashes environmental protection budget as Amazon burns
Brazil’s government has begun legal procedures to transfer all employees out of three of the state’s four federal environmental protection offices, which are in charge of defending the rainforest.
How fuzzy science fooled Macron and his G-7 cronies on Amazon dangers
Emmanuel Macron may not technically be a celebrity, but he tweets like one. Prior to the G-7 summit, the French president declared on Twitter, “The Amazon rain forest — the...
Brazil ramps up environmental policing amid criticism over Amazon fires
Brazilian law enforcement officials targeted illegal wildcat miners in an apparent resurgence of environmental policing amid raging Amazonian rainforest fires. Authorities with Brazil's Institute for the Environmental and Renewable Natural...
Bolsonaro says he'll take Amazon fire aid if Brazil can decide how to spend it
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro moved toward accepting foreign aid to battle the raging Amazon rainforest fires -- but insisted that the South American country must independently decide how the aid...
Trump defends Brazil's President Bolsonaro amid Amazon fire tensions
President Trump on Tuesday complimented Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro, saying that he’d gotten to know him well, praising his efforts to fight the raging Amazon fires and pledging US help....
Brazil rejects $20 million G-7 aid package to fight Amazon fires
They’re fighting fire with . . . sick burns. Brazil tossed cold water on French President Emmanuel Macron’s offer for G-7 aid to fight Amazon rainforest fires — nettling Macron over the...
Brazilian warplanes dump thousands of gallons of water on Amazon fires
Brazilian warplanes dumped thousands of gallons of water over the weekend to battle the raging Amazon rainforest fires, as leaders of the G7 nations pledged an immediate $20 million in...
Brazilian troops enlisted to fight unprecedented wildfires in Amazon rain forest
Thousands of Brazilian troops entered the fight Saturday to battle the worst wildfires in the Amazon in years, even as European leaders huddled to discuss a strategy for dealing with...
Celebs keep posting misleading photos about Amazon wildfire to social media
Celebrities trying to bring attention to the Amazon blazes in Brazil are spreading misleading snapshots like wildfire on social media. The raging fires have prompted a handful of celebs such...