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 ...

“It’s really worrying this early on,” said Ane Alencar, the science director at the Amazon Environmental Research Institute in Brazil. Fires at ... Indigenous and forest-dwelling communities ...

The number of forest fires in Brazil surged in the first eight months of 2019, official data show, as President Jair Bolsonaro faces growing criticism over rampant destruction of the Amazon.

About 60% of all the fires burning throughout Latin America are currently happening in Brazil, officials said. This aerial view shows smoke billowing from the forest at Pirituba neighborhood ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP ... prosecutor Pablo Viscardi said the fires are the work of people who want to gain legal title to the land. They “use forest fires to ‘consolidate’ the land ...

Flames reached a protected forest on the outskirts of the capital ... low humidity creates a "very favorable context for new fires," Brazil's Environment Minister Marina Silva said in a recent ...