Fires are widespread across South America this year, worsening air pollution and health impacts. In Brazil, fires outside the ...

According to official monitoring, Amazon rainforest loss in Brazil dropped by one-third compared to the previous year, ...

Thousands of fires are ravaging the Amazon rainforest in Brazil - the most intense blazes for almost a decade. The northern states of Roraima, Acre, Rondônia and Amazonas have been particularly ...

Brazil's environment minister told the BBC the government was doing an "excellent" job in protecting the Amazon, but campaigners say it could be doing more than just stopping fires in one region ...

In Brazil, fires outside the Amazon have been particularly severe in the Pantanal and Cerrado. Scientists have warned that the combination of deforestation, forest degradation, and climate change ...

Authorities use satellites to track deforestation caused by chain saws or fire. Now criminals are using chemicals to degrade ...

AGUA CLARA, Brazil — Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon ... not clearcutting deforestation, as the fire in the Amazon rainforest spreads mostly through leaves on the ground, and not through ...

Brazil's Environment Minister Marina Silva, right, chats with Vice President Geraldo Alckmin during the announcement of a plan to combat fires and deforestation in the Amazon and the Brazilian ...