An archaeologist working in South America says he has not seen a blue sky for months - because vast swathes of the Amazon rainforest have been on fire since August. Researchers have, in the past ...

According to NASA's Amazon fire forecast, the forest is so dry that the risk of wildfire for the coming months now exceeds the fire risk of 2005 and 2010 - both drought years that saw wildfires ...

The Amazon rainforest has been burning for over three ... peaking in late September), but farmers and loggers also purposefully set fire to the rainforest in order to clean land for industrial ...

Fire has engulfed an area two-thirds the size ... of fires is up 84% this year compared to the year before. The Amazon rainforest in Brazil is experiencing a record amount of fires this year ...

Brazil experienced more fire activity in the 2000s - with 2005 seeing more than 142,000 fires in the first eight months of the year. Forest fires are common in the Amazon during the dry season ...

Preserving the Amazon rainforest is of global importance in ... Early numbers from this year's fire season show an increase, leading to concern from scientists. President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil ...

Unlike wildfire in North America, where blazes sometimes reach treetops and expand from there, in the Amazon rainforest, fire spreads mostly through leaves on the ground, causing less harm.

The accusation comes after Bolsonaro - described as the 'Donald Trump of the tropics' - came under fire himself for his administration's attitude towards the Amazon rainforest. The president has ...

But never in the forest, with its heavy rains ... In the southwestern Amazon, fast-growing bamboo is overtaking lands ravaged by fire and drought. And in the devastated transitional forests ...

The "lungs of the earth" are on fire, and shrinking every day ... the Justice Ministry — which protected the rights of Amazon forest tribes — to the Agriculture Ministry, which promotes ...

More than one third of the Amazon rainforest may have been degraded by ... For the study, they examined the impact of fire, logging, drought and changes to habitat along the forest borders ...