Amazon fire

Fires ‘poisoning air’ in Amazon: study
Environment

Fires ‘poisoning air’ in Amazon: study

With data so far this year again showing alarming levels of fires and deforestation, the problem could be even worse in 2020

A Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA) fire brigade member holds a dead anteater while attempting to control hot points in a tract of the Amazon jungle near Apui, Amazonas State, Brazil, August 11, 2020/ Reuters
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Brazil's Bolsonaro calls surging Amazon fires a 'lie'

A fire burns a tract of the Amazon jungle in Agua Boa, Mato Grosso state, Brazil September 4, 2019/ Reuters
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Brazilian Amazon fires surge in July

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Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon up 85 percent in 2019

A burning tract of Amazon jungle is seen while as it is being cleared by loggers and farmers in Porto Velho, Brazil August 23, 2019/ Reuters
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Climate change could turn Amazon forest into a carbon source: Scientists

A tract of the Amazon jungle burns as it is cleared by farmers in Rio Pardo, Rondonia State, Brazil, September 15, 2019. Photo: REUTERS
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Amazon fire and what it could mean for the Paris Agreement

Leonardo DiCaprio: ‘We did not fund the organizations targeted’
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Leonardo DiCaprio: ‘We did not fund the organizations targeted’

American actor Leonardo DiCaprio/ Photo: Reuters
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DiCaprio denies Bolsonaro accusation of link to Amazon fires

Brazil's president accuses actor DiCaprio of paying to burn the Amazon
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Brazil's president accuses actor DiCaprio of paying to burn the Amazon

Brazilian climate strikers take aim at Bolsonaro for Amazon fires
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Brazilian climate strikers take aim at Bolsonaro for Amazon fires

This satellite combo image provided by European Space Agency, ESA, shows levels of carbon monoxide pollution caused by the forest fires in the Amazon, between the second half of July 2019 and the first half of Aug. 2019. Photo: AP
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European space agency records Amazon air pollution

A fire burns a tract of the Amazon jungle in Agua Boa, Mato Grosso state, Brazil September 4, 2019/ Reuters
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Brazil deforestation rises in August, adding to Amazon fire worries

Indigenous people from the Shanenawa tribe dance during a festival to celebrate nature and ask for an end to the burning of the Amazon, in the indigenous village of Morada Nova near Feijo, Acre State, Brazil, September 1, 2019/ Reuters
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Indigenous tribes pray for ravaging Amazon