Amazon fires: Deforestation has a devastating heating impact on the local climate – New study.
Rainforest fires heat the planet, but the degraded forest left behind has far more consequences for the local environment. [Read now...]
Amazon fires are destructive, but they aren’t depleting Earth’s oxygen supply.
If the Amazon rainforest functions as our planet’s lungs, what do raging wildfires threaten? An atmospheric scientist explains why the fires, though devastating, won’t suffocate life on Earth. [Read now...]
Amazon fires: Jair Bolsonaro faces mounting political backlash in Brazil – even from his allies.
What the Amazon fires mean for Jair Bolsonaro politically. [Read now...]
Jair Bolsonaro wants to deforest the Amazon – What powers does the UN have to stop him?
Brazil’s deforestation rate is back up. The UN Security Council has three main options. [Read now...]
You’re posting about it on social media, but do you know why the Amazon is on fire?
Imagine that your lungs burst into flames — that’s what’s happening to our Earth right now, Alyssa Satara writes. [Read now...]
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The Amazon is burning — 4 essential reads on Brazil’s vanishing rainforest.
Don’t blame climate change for the 39,000 forest fires now incinerating huge tracts of the Brazilian Amazon. This environmental catastrophe is human-made and highly political. [Read now...]
The Amazon is on fire – Here are 5 things you need to know.
The Amazon is burning at record levels, and land clearing is to blame. The good news: we already know what we need to do to stop it. [Read now...]
