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Douglas McIntyre, Editor-in-Chief at Climate Crisis 24/7, reports on a groundbreaking Washington Post story about a major ...

Amazon rainforest on fire: ‘Lungs of the world’ in flames Fire has engulfed an area two-thirds the size of the continental U.S., and containing the flames is proving to be a herculean task ...

Colombia’s government has reported a sharp overall rise in deforestation in the country’s Amazon rainforest for last year, ...

Officials from Para State, northern Brazil, inspect a deforested area in the Amazon rain forest during surveillance in the municipality of Pacaja, 620 km from the capital Belem, on September 22, 2021.

The Amazon has lost between 15% and 17% of its trees, and at current deforestation rates, the rainforest could cross Nobre’s threshold in 15 to 30 years. “We are almost seeing the tipping ...

Why the Amazon could be at risk of "collapsing" French President Emmanuel Macron wants the wildfires raging in the Amazon rainforest to be on the agenda at this weekend's G-7 summit. And even ...

Topline South America's dense Amazon rainforest has long served as one of the planet's primary carbon-absorbing regions, but a new study has found human interference is causing a large part of the ...

A man works in a burning tract of Amazon jungle as it is being cleared by loggers and farmers in Iranduba, Amazonas state, Brazil, August 20, 2019. Bruno Kelly/Reuters Fears about this tipping ...

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