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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

By Rhett Ayers Butler [( For decades the world’s largest rainforest has been getting drier. A new study published in Nature ...

Recent data from the University of Maryland show the tropics lost 6.7 million hectares (16.6 million acres) of primary rainforest in 2024 — nearly double the loss of 2023 and the highest on record.

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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 ...