Early this year, the Supreme Courtorderedthe federal government and all Amazon and Pantanal states to draw-up emergency fire ...

Among Brazilian states, Roraima experienced the largest area burned in the first three months of the year, with 415,700 ...

Each dry season, farmers carve up and burn hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of acres in one of the world’s largest ...

Brazil has declared a nationwide environmental emergency to prevent another devastating fire season in 2025. In 2024, record-breaking blazes scorched millions of hectares of native vegetation in ...

Smokes rises from forest fires in Altamira, Para state, Brazil, in the Amazon basin ... after the G7 offered $20 million in Amazon fire aid. Vice President Hamilton Mourao -- widely considered ...

OFUNATO, Iwate Prefecture—Firefighters on the morning of Feb. 27 continued battling the latest forest fire here that has spread to several locations and damaged or destroyed dozens of buildings.