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Members of Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA) fire brigade work to extinguish a fire rising in Amazon rainforest in Apui, Amazonas state, Brazil, August 8, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Adriano Machado

'Out of control' fires ravage the Amazon region

Officials say that this year is thought to have suffered the worst fires in 20 years, leading to evacuations, school closures, cancelled flights and severe threats to environment in the region

Members of Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA) fire brigade work to extinguish a fire rising in Amazon rainforest in Apui, Amazonas state, Brazil, August 8, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Adriano Machado

Brazil fire brigades fight Amazon blazes off to torrid start in 2024

This handout picture, taken and released by the Brazilian Presidency on August 8, 2023, shows President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (L) and his Minister of Indigenous Peoples, Sonia Guajajara, chatting during the Amazon Summit IV Meeting of Presidents of States Parties to the Amazon Cooperation Treaty (ACTO) in Belem, Para State, Brazil. Photo: AFPPIX

Amazon nations launch alliance to fight deforestation at summit

FILE PHOTO: Brazil's former President and presidential candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva holds a news conference along with Former Minister of Environment Marina Silva, after casting his vote during the presidential election, in Sao Bernardo do Campo, on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil October 30, 2022. REUTERS/Mariana Greif/File Photo

Lula cheered for new climate policies after Brazil election

The Amazon rainforest is home to one in 10 known species on Earth. Photo: Getty Images via BBC

If Brazil legalizes more Amazon mining, it would drive deforestation, study says

Federal Police officers escort a man accused to be involved in the missing of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, who went missing while reporting in a remote and lawless part of the Amazon rainforest, near the border with Peru, in Atalaia do Norte, Amazonas state, Brazil, June 15, 2022. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly

Brazil police find remains in search for UK journalist, suspect confesses

Police officers and rescue team members stand on a boat during the search operation for British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, who went missing while reporting in a remote and lawless part of the Amazon rainforest, near the border with Peru, in Atalaia do Norte, Amazonas state, Brazil on 12 June 2022. Photo: Reuters

Brazil police says reports that British journalist was found dead are not correct

Top fashion brands may have hand in destroying Amazon rainforest: Study

Top fashion brands may have hand in destroying Amazon rainforest: Study

Photo: AP via UNB

Brazil launches military operations to protect Amazon rainforest

File Photo: Gravediggers carry a coffin during a collective burial of people that have passed away due to the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), at the Parque Taruma cemetery in Manaus, Brazil April 28, 2020. Picture taken April 28, 2020/ Reuters

Coronavirus chronicle

Amazon city resorts to mass graves as Brazil Covid-19 deaths soar

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

Coronavirus chronicle

Boy from isolated Amazon tribe dies after being infected with coronavirus

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Amazon rainforest could collapse in 50 years

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Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon up 85 percent in 2019