Brazil reports more Amazon fires so far this year than all of 2021
- 20-Sep-2022
The number of forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon so far this year has already surpassed that recorded for all of 2021, according to official figures released Monday that triggered new alarm for the world’s biggest rainforest. Satellite monitoring has detected 75,592 fires from January 1 to September 18 this year, already higher than the […]
Amazon fires drive spike in child breathing problems
- 03-Oct-2019
Roughly 5,000 children aged nine or younger were treated each month in May and June in 36 areas within Brazil’s so-called “arc of deforestation,”
Amazon countries meet to bolster rainforest protection
- 07-Sep-2019
Presidents and ministers from seven Amazon countries met in Colombia on Friday to agree on measures to protect the world's biggest rainforest
Fires not the only threat facing Amazon
- 31-Aug-2019
Raging wildfires have drawn the world's attention to the Amazon but immolation is just one of the dangers facing the world's largest rain forest
Agents raid illegal miners in Amazon as environmental enforcement ratchets up
- 31-Aug-2019
Federal police and agents with environmental enforcement agency Ibama were carrying out a raid on illegal wildcat miners near the Ituna/Itatá indigenous reserve
Brazil’s burning ban takes effect as Amazon fires rage
- 30-Aug-2019
A 60-day ban on burning in Brazil took effect Thursday after a global outcry over fires raging in the Amazon and data showing hundreds of new blazes
Rain will not extinguish Amazon fires for weeks, weather experts say
- 27-Aug-2019
Weak rainfall is unlikely to extinguish a record number of fires raging in Brazil’s Amazon anytime soon, with pockets of precipitation through Sept. 10 expected to bring only isolated relief, according to weather data and two experts.
Brazil slams G7 aid offer as Amazon fires rage
- 27-Aug-2019
Brazil on Monday rejected aid from G7 countries to fight wildfires in the Amazon, with a top official telling French President Emmanuel Macron to take care of "his home and his colonies."
Leonardo DiCaprio urges government action on Amazon fires ‘tragedy’
- 26-Aug-2019
DiCaprio was speaking a day after Earth Alliance, an initiative he founded with philanthropists Laurene Powell Jobs and Brian Sheth, launched a $5-million emergency fund
G7 pledges millions to help fight Amazon fires
- 26-Aug-2019
The G7 club -- comprising Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States -- has also agreed to support a medium-term reforestation plan