2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome ...

Brazil's leader has ordered the armed forces to fight forest fires in the Amazon, amid international outrage over rising deforestation. President Jair Bolsonaro deployed soldiers in nature ...

The vast Amazon rainforest bore the brunt of the devastation, accounting for approximately 17.9 million hectares of the total ...

It comes weeks after President Jair Bolsonaro sacked the head of ... Meanwhile, US space agency Nasa said that overall fire activity in the Amazon basin was slightly below average this year.

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro Friday said the Amazon ... allegedly irreversible destruction of the Amazon by increasing deforestation and fires were false. He also insisted it had been spread ...

With Donald Trump back in the White House, advocates for the Amazon worry about what his second term will mean for the ...

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose to its highest ... increase under the leadership of right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro. The data from Brazil’s INPE space research agency ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest ... far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro, who prioritized agribusiness expansion over forest protection and weakened ...