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, ...

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.

Wildfires have proliferated in the Amazon rainforest this year, producing fears about the impacts of right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro’s environmental policies and how the damage could contr… ...

Amazon Rainforest, Known as 'The Planet's Lungs,' Has Been Burning at a Record Rate for Weeks. If the Amazon reaches "a point of no return," it could begin emitting carbon, ...

Dark skies over Sao Paulo this week were just a local hint of an unfolding global catastrophe centered in Brazil. This year, the Amazon rainforest is burning at unprecedented rates, after historic ...

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 year, up ...

Amazon rainforest keeps burning Tens of thousands of Brazilian troops have been deployed to fight the fires as outrage grows over the government’s response. ABC News’ Janai Norman reports.

The world's largest rainforest is ablaze. On Tuesday, a new fire started every minute in Brazil. Since August 15, more than 9,500 fires have sparked in Brazil, most of them in the Amazon basin ...

The Amazon Rainforest is burning. ... Smoke billows during a fire in an area of the Amazon rainforest near Humaita, Amazonas State, Brazil on August 17, 2019.

Brazil's Amazon Rainforest Is Burning, Right When We Need It the Most. By Savannah Walsh Published: Aug 22, 2019 3:21 PM EDT. Save Article. Brasil2 // Getty Images.