The already threatened Amazon rainforest in Brazil suffered its highest number of fires in 17 years throughout 2024, ...

Brazil's Amazon rainforest experienced its highest number of fires in 17 years in 2024, government data published Wednesday ...

The Amazon rainforest staggered through another difficult year in 2024. A second year of record drought contributed to ...

The Amazon Rainforest, where next year’s COP30 climate summit will be hosted, is reeling from two consecutive years of severe drought, with major rivers at record lows, leading to water shortages and ...

“If the Amazon rainforest is to avoid the tipping point, Indigenous people will have been a determinant factor," Miller said. Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon — home to the largest swath of ...

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Dry conditions were fueled by deforestation and the El Niño weather pattern, and made worse by climate change.

“If the Amazon rainforest is to avoid the tipping point, Indigenous people will have been a determinant factor," Miller said. Wildfires and extreme drought Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon ...

and although the Government of Brazil is committed by law to the preservation of 80% of its Amazon, it cannot give up road construction and mining in the world's largest rainforest, Mourão said.