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In Brazil, cattle ranchers and land-grabbers set the Amazon on fire to illegally clear land and expand their destructive business. They do this because the global meat industry — and its paying customers — have historically been willing to sacrifice forests — and our futures — for profits.
The Amazon has had its worst forest fires in two decades. More than 62,000 square kilometres have been burned this year already – an area bigger than countries like Sri Lanka or Costa Rica. The ...
The collapse of the Amazon rainforest could release the equivalent of as much as 20 years’ worth of global carbon emissions into the atmosphere. Deforestation and fires. The drought-depleted...
South America is ablaze, with record-breaking fires burning even in typically moist ecosystems like the Amazon rainforest.
A brush fire burning in February on a farm in Roraima, Brazil’s northernmost state. The fires in the Amazon are the result of a mix of extreme weather events and climate change, experts said.
The area of the Amazon in Brazil, home to about two-thirds of the world’s largest rainforest, suffered its highest number of blazes for 14 years in August, according to the national space...
The Amazon has had its worst forest fires in two decades. More than 62,000 square kilometres have been burned this year already – an area bigger than countries like Sri Lanka or Costa Rica. The ...