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Amazon Rainforest Fires
A staggering 13.4 million acres of Brazil's Amazon have burned through August 2024, an area larger than Costa Rica.
km.), while in Peru fires have reached unprecedented levels, with over 1,800 forest fire alerts recorded. Bolivia has suffered over 17,700 fire ...
Unlike wildfire in North America, where blazes sometimes reach treetops and expand from there, in the Amazon rainforest, fire spreads mostly ...
Amazon's record forest fires hit Brazil's indigenous communities - BBC
'It kills everything' - Amazon's indigenous people hit by record forest fires in Brazil ... “If these fires continue, we indigenous people will ...
The primary drivers of deforestation in the Amazon — and other biomes in Brazil such as the Pantanal and the Cerrado — are agribusiness and meat ...
Brazil. Brazil, which contains about 60% of the Amazon rainforest, has seen more than 47,000 fire alerts so far this year — more than double the ...
The number of fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest region for the month of August surged to the highest level since 2010, government data ...
The data analyzed covers five large forest fires that occurred in the Amazon biome between 1998 and 2023.
LONDON -- Wildfires in the Amazon are choking swaths of Brazil, Bolivia and Ecuador with smoke, leading to evacuations, school closures, ...
Today's Amazon fire emergency, like the climate crisis exacerbating it, is entirely man-made. What has become an annual nightmare for the forest ...
The Brazilian authorities have attributed the alarming rise in forest fires to global heating and the El Niño weather pattern, which both ...
Brazil's fires: wake-up call to climate change, human destruction
This year alone, more than 760,000 hectares of land have burned in the Amazon and 1.3 million hectares in the Pantanal region.
Amazon's indigenous people hit by record forest fires in Brazil
The Amazon has had its worst forest fires in two decades. More than 62000 square kilometres have been burned this year already – an area of ...
NASA satellites observed unusually widespread and intense fire activity in Roraima, according to multiple fire monitoring platforms.
Experts expect cooler temperatures and more rain in the Amazon region from May and June, which means “the occurrence of forest fires should be ...
On February 28, Brazil's National Institute for Space Research announced that 2,940 fires had burned in the Brazilian Amazon over the course of ...
Climate change and deforestation work in tandem to make fire an annual occurrence in the Amazon rainforest.
Brazil experiencing record-breaking wildfires as persistent drought ...
The fire burns vegetation in the Tingua Biological Reserve in Nova Iguacu, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, on Sept. 13, 2024. Pablo Porciuncula/ ...
The primary driver of wildfires in the Amazon rainforest is deforestation driven by economic opportunities. Agriculture, mining, logging, transportation routes ...
Fires normally occur around the dry season as slash-and-burn methods are used to clear the forest to make way for agriculture, livestock, logging, and mining, ...