The Amazon rainforest has been burning for over three ... peaking in late September), but farmers and loggers also purposefully set fire to the rainforest in order to clean land for industrial ...

Thousands of fires are ravaging the Amazon rainforest in Brazil - the most intense ... Nasa, which provides Inpe with its active fire data, confirmed recordings from its satellite sensors also ...

Inpe said it had detected more than 72,000 fires so far this year Swathes of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil are on fire. The sky in São Paulo turned black due to smoke drifting from the fires ...

The Amazon rainforest stores an estimated 120 billion ... broadcast their forecasts and increase awareness of the elevated fire risk, and they are hoping that this will encourage local authorities ...

Fire has engulfed an area two-thirds the size ... of fires is up 84% this year compared to the year before. The Amazon rainforest in Brazil is experiencing a record amount of fires this year ...

The accusation comes after Bolsonaro - described as the 'Donald Trump of the tropics' - came under fire himself for his administration's attitude towards the Amazon rainforest. The president has ...

we cannot afford more damage to a major source of oxygen and biodiversity” France and the United Nations called on Thursday for the protection of the fire-plagued Amazon rainforest as Brazil's ...

In Brazil, after international condemnation about the state of the rainforest ... forest fires in its chunk of the Amazon. Here's what it's like for the "fire warriors" on the frontlines.

About 18 percent of the rainforest is now gone ... In the southwestern Amazon, fast-growing bamboo is overtaking lands ravaged by fire and drought. And in the devastated transitional forests ...