That harm can look like respiratory diseases such as asthma caused by toxic air pollution after fires, or illnesses that ...

Now, imagine a forest so vast that it stretches across eight developing countries. Any guesses? The Amazon rainforest isn’t just a faraway jungle, it’s the planet’s life-support system. Stretching ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change.

Wildfires have scorched millions of hectares of forest across South America so far this year. From Bolivia to Brazil, Peru to Argentina, the continent has been gripped by one of its worst fire seasons ...

For decades the world’s largest rainforest has been getting drier. A new study published in Nature Communications ...

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BOGOTA, Colombia — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rain forest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change. A ...