Map of South America showing the change in the number of days of simultaneous heat, dryness, and fire risk between the periods 1971–2000 and 2001–2022. This is Fig 1a from the published paper.

South America’s most dangerous gang invades the Amazon forest. The PCC is taking over illegal gold mining in the Amazon and corrupting Indigenous cultures in a spiral of violence in some of ...

Record dry conditions in South America have led to wildfires, power cuts and water rationing. The world’s largest river system, the Amazon, which sustains some 30 million people across eight ...

Pics: A Continent Ablaze - South America Surpasses Record For Forest Fires Satellite data analyzed by Brazil's space research agency Inpe has registered 346,112 fire hotspots so far this year in ...

Over 346,000 fire hotspots recorded in South America this year, surpassing 2007 record Brazil and Bolivia deploy thousands of firefighters, struggle against extreme weather Smoke from fires ...