Brazil's Amazon rainforest experienced its highest number of fires in 17 years in 2024, government data published Wednesday showed, after the vast biome suffered months of a lengthy drought.

In Brazil, the Amazon is experiencing wildfires on a massive scale, affecting the largest area of forests in 17 years. From January to December 2024, over 137,000 forest fires were recorded.

Criminal gangs are operating in over a third of municipalities in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest driving a boom in violence, according to a report published Wednesday by a prominent nonprofit ...

Through technology, we get to observe a number of species and behavior types we’d never be able to monitor by natural means. ...

New technologies, bio-jewelry, and innovative decorative items using Amazon raw materials are expected ... said on EBC radio broadcast Voz do Brasil that, in addition to the initiatives by the ...