The Amazon rainforest has undergone its “most devastating” forest fire season in over two decades, despite a slowing trend in deforestation. A new study from the European Commission’s Joint Research ...

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Backed by military aircraft, Brazilian troops on Saturday were deploying in the Amazon to fight fires that have swept the region and prompted anti-government protests as well as an ...

The Amazon has suffered its most destructive fire season in more than two decades, releasing a staggering 791 million tons of carbon dioxide—on par with Germany’s annual emissions. Scientists found ...

Soot from forest fires in the Amazon might play a role in the melting of faraway ice in Antarctica. For decades, scientists have known that black carbon from burning fossil fuels or forests ...