Scientists are on high alert that the Amazon is careening toward a destructive fire season. Parts of Brazil and its typically lush rainforest are parched by drought and loaded with fire-kindling ...

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 ...

Due to the number of fires in the Amazon rainforest, it’s hard to predict exactly when it started. However, the fires have increased recently, with more than 9,500 infernos since Thursday.

Fires in the Amazon are out of control. Again. Hundreds of wildfires have already scorched the rainforest this year, and the worst is likely yet to come.

BOGOTA, COLOMBIA — 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.

Record number of wildfires burn in Amazon rainforest 01:39. On Monday afternoon, the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil, went dark — but it wasn't some strange cosmic event.

BOGOTA – 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.. A ...

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 ...

While the wildfires raging in the Amazon rainforest may constitute an “international crisis,” they are hardly an accident. The vast majority of the fires have been set by loggers and ranchers ...

The Amazon rainforest’s worst-case scenario is uncomfortably near. Wildfires and deforestation are pushing the Amazon rainforest toward a dieback scenario: an irreversible cycle of collapse.

Wildfires are common in the Amazon during the dry season, which lasts from August to November. But this has been a record year. Currently, there are more than 165,000 fires burning in the rainforest .