Studies show that the Amazon was the most hit biome in 2024, with 15.6 million hectares burned—the largest area harmed in the ...

Brazil topped the world last year in forest fires, accounting for 42% of the global loss of primary tropical forests. The extreme heat of the year, exacerbated by climate change and El Niño ...

Firefighters tackle forest fires in the Pantanal wetland near Porto Jofre, Mato Grosso State, Brazil, Nov. 13, 2023. ROGERIO FLORENTINO/AFP/Getty ...

According to monitoring platform MapBiomas, fires razed 30 million hectares last year – a 62 percent jump compared to the ...

Meanwhile, this region of Brazil, which is about twice the size of New Jersey, has 30 firefighters, who work seasonally. ABC News' Matt Gutman reports on the fires engulfing the Amazon, August ...

A man watches a fire in a sugar cane plantation near Dumon, Brazil, on Aug, 24. More than 2,100 fires blazed in sugar cane fields this summer in Brazil, burning 59,000 hectares and causing $63.59 ...

Brazil experienced a dramatic surge in forest fires in 2024, with 30.8 million hectares of land burned—a 79% increase compared to the previous year. This alarming data was revealed in a report ...

The fires in the Pantanal, in southwest Brazil, raged across an estimated 7,861 square miles between January and August, according to an analysis conducted by NASA for The New York Times, ...

Fires are common during Brazil’s dry season, but the numbers surged this year. The country’s National Space Research Institute, which monitors deforestation, has recorded more than 77,000 ...

As flames burn through Brazil’s rainforest, its inhabitants are at risk of losing their homes. The fires pose a serious threat to the Amazon’s delicate balance of ecosystems, putting pressure ...

In the first two weeks of November, fires fueled by unusually dry and hot weather destroyed nearly 1.9 million acres of the Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetlands.