As deforestation increases in the Amazon, it will decrease precipitation in California and create drier conditions in ...

The vast Amazon rainforest bore the brunt of the devastation, accounting for approximately 17.9 million hectares of the total ...

A study reveals that fire emissions in the Amazon and Cerrado are largely driven by the smoldering combustion of woody debris ...

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 ...

Under extremely dry conditions, these fires easily get out of control and reach neighboring properties and forest edges. “In the Amazon, fire always has a human origin. Nature’s contribution ...

With Donald Trump settling back into the White House, advocates for the Amazon worry about what his second term will mean for ...

revealed that samples collected at a few of the sites contained evidence of charcoal — a byproduct of fire. Most likely, ancient humans were setting fires in the Amazon as an early form of ...

Rainforest Trust, Amazon Watch, Greenpeace and Earth Alliance. You can also raise awareness about the Amazon fire crisis by posting on social media using the hashtags #ClimateCrisis and # ...

Adding to the crisis, fire outbreaks, many suspected to ... The road network in the Amazon compromises forest connectivity and increases threats to the native wildlife, such as this snake killed ...

As forests continue to be cleared and forested landscapes degraded by human activity, their loss can significantly affect the ...

They fear Donald Trump’s second administration will bring nothing good for the Amazon rainforest. Besides Trump’s Day 1 move to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, they fear he’ll cut ...