The year with the highest number of incidents was 2024, which, according to the Ministry of the Environment, was driven by an exceptional drought—the worst in 74 years.
The re-election of Donald Trump for another term in the United States signalled that the pushback against climate action would only intensify. All this came in a year that broke the record for the ...
The Amazon is perilously close to an ecological tipping point. According to a February paper in Nature, “by 2050, 10% to 47 percent of Amazonian forests will be exposed to compounding disturbances ...
And those fires contributed to deforestation, with authorities suspecting some fires were set to more easily clear land to run cattle.The Amazon is twice the size of India and sprawls across eight ...