Historic forest fires in Brazil last year scorched through an area larger than the size of Italy, recording a burned area ...

Historic forest fires in Brazil last year scorched through an area larger than the size of Italy, recording a burned area ...

Brazil experienced historic fires last year, particularly in the Amazon, the largest tropical rainforest on the planet that ...

MapBiomas, which began satellite recording in 1985, said that the Amazon accounted for more than half of the fires suffered in Brazil, with 15.6 million hectares affected -- more than double its ...

Historic forest fires in Brazil last year scorched through an area larger than the size of Italy, recording a burned area some 60 percent higher than average of the last ...

BRAZIL - Historic forest fires in Brazil last year scorched through an area larger than the size of Italy, recording a burned area some 60% higher than average of the last four decades, ...

Forest fires have been raging for several weeks in Brazil, particularly in the Amazon rainforest in the north and the immense Pantanal wetland in the center-west of the country. (AFP/Michael Dantas) ...

Brazil experienced historic fires last year, particularly in the Amazon, the largest tropical rainforest on the planet that is key to absorbing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, AFP reported.