Amazon Wildfires

Mining, livestock and deforestation along with wildfires threaten the Amazon forest

It might be too little too late for a country that has lost 1.2 million hectares of grassland and forest to fires since May.

Weak rainfall will not extinguish Amazon fires, Brazil govt’s firefighting initiative will only put out smaller blazes, warn weather experts

Weak rainfall is unlikely to extinguish a record number of fires raging in Brazil’s Amazon anytime soon, with pockets of precipitation through 10 September expected to bring only isolated relief

After Amazon's fires, Africa's rainforests are burning too, but for different reasons

The Congo Basin forest is commonly referred to as the "second green lung" of the planet after the Amazon.