Brazil
Criminals may be leveraging climate change as record acreage burns in Brazil's Amazon
Brazil’s Amazon dry season just ended with a staggering 846% increase in burned forest area compared to the year before.
BRASILIA – Wildfires in Brazil have swept through an area the size of Switzerland, a level of destruction that will take decades to recover, if it ever does, according to a new satellite assessment.
The breadth of forest that has been lost or degrade... [5468 chars]