Burning: Why is Brazil’s Amazon rainforest engulfed in flames? The Amazon still generates the rain that sustains it, but the removal of trees prompts precipitation to decline and, combined with ...

Fires are raging at a record rate in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, and scientists warn that it could strike a devastating blow to the fight against climate change. The fires are burning at the ...

While the Amazon rainforest encompasses several South American ... and meteorologists believe it’s smoke from the fires burning *thousands* of kilometers away, in Rondônia or Paraguay.

The Amazon is burning at an alarming rate as tens of thousands of fires lay waste to the world's largest tropical rainforest. There have been more than 74,000 wildfires across Brazil this ...

If the Amazon ... rainforest, CNN reported. “Just a little alert to the world: the sky randomly turned dark today in São Paulo, and meteorologists believe it’s smoke from the fires burning ...

This year, the Amazon rainforest is burning at an unprecedented rate, after historic deforestation in the wake of the election of right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro. Around 74,000 fires have been ...

The Amazon rainforest lost an estimated 5 million acres ... The massive wildfires are burning across the Amazon and scientists say the number of fires is up 84% this year compared to the year ...

About 99% of Amazon fires start from human ... for parched forests that are more prone to burning. In that sense, climate change and uncontrolled rainforest blazes are interconnected.

The fires ravaging Brazil's Amazon rainforest are another reminder of ... "[Farmers] wait for the dry season and they start burning and clearing the areas so that their cattle can graze.

Why is the Amazon burning? Unlike wildfires in California ... At least 400 indigenous tribes live in the rainforest, and their cultures and livelihoods are intimately linked with the state ...