BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change. A warming climate fed drought that in turn...
Environmentalists, however, say humans are the root cause of the fires devastating the Amazon. Amazon Watch, a group that works to protect the rainforest and the indigenous people of the Amazon, says farmers have been setting forests ablaze to create pastures. Farmers and ranchers h...
Human-Lit Fires Can Pose Threat to Amazon RainforestGeoffrey Giller
As the rainforest bleeds biomass through deforestation, it loses its ability to capture carbon from the atmosphere and releases carbon through combustion. If the annual fires burning the Amazon are not curtailed, one of the world’s largest ...
Macron told reporters after the meeting that Trump's team was in the room and that the U.S. is aligned with the rest of the G-7 on fighting the Amazon fires. After mounting pressure from other nations, Bolsonaro agreed to deploy troops to fight the fires. "The Ama...
Fires sweeping across the Amazon rainforest recently have been making the headlines as scientists and environ mental groups are worried that they will worsen climate change crisis and endanger biodiversity(生态多样性)As the largest rainforest in the world, the Amazon rainforest is often called “the...
Fires are burning in the Amazon rainforest at an alarming rate. French President Emmanuel Macron has said the record number of fires is now an "international crisis". There has been an 85 percent increase in fires in t...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the fires in the Amazon rainforest are “not only heartbreaking, they are an international crisis.” “We stand ready to provide whatever help we can to bring them under control and help protect one of Earth’s greatest wonders,” Johnson added. ...
“The vast majority of these fires are human-lit,” said Christian Poirier, the program director of non-profit organization Amazon Watch. He added that even during dry seasons, the Amazon – a humid rainforest – doesn’t catch on fire easily, unlike the dry bushland in California or Austr...
Experts say the region hasrarely been drier than it is now, and researchers who monitor the Amazon have alreadyspotted a rash of large fires this year. The rainforest’s first major fire of 2021 occurred more than a week earlier than last year, according to Matt Finer, a senior research ...