Sources: Global Forest Watch/RAISG Map data: Natural Earth *including the biogeographical limits, administrative regions and ...

Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight ...

A warming climate fed drought that in turn fed the worst year for fires in the Amazon rainforest since 2005. And those fires ...

At its lowest level in the region for the past nine years in km2 *measured from the month of August to July in the year ...

And those fires contributed to deforestation, with authorities suspecting some fires were set to more easily clear land to run cattle. The Amazon is twice the size of India and sprawls across ...

The fires and drought experienced in 2024 across the Amazon rainforest could be ominous indicators that we are reaching the ...

In Brazil, large swaths of the rainforest were draped in smoke in August from fires raging across the Amazon, Cerrado savannah, Pantanal wetland and the state of Sao Paulo. Fires are traditionally ...