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Smoke from the 2020 Calwood Fire in Colorado, U.S. Malachi Brooks

From the Amazon to Siberia, experts forecast the 2022 fire season – and what we can do about it

From the Amazon to Siberia, expectations for this year's summer wildfires are for intensity and unpredictability.

 
Área de queimada próxima à Floresta Nacional de Jacundá, em Rondônia. Foto: Bruno Kelly.

Fires in the Amazon have already impacted more than 90% of animal and plant species in the biome

Most flora and fauna species face habitat loss due to fires in the Amazon, but some - like primates - are particularly affected.

 
Vista aérea da floresta amazônica no estado brasileiro do Amazonas. Neil Palmer, CIAT

Plotting the points that got the Amazon to its tipping point

Experts stress perils of deforestation, fire and climate change - and hopes of land management - for the tipping point of the Amazon.

 
Empty space left in the Peruvian rainforest after the logging of Brazil nut trees. Marco Simola, CIFOR

The Amazon rainforest is nearing its tipping point – but what does that mean?

The Amazon is the world’s largest and most biodiverse tropical rainforest – but deforestation could push it past a climate tipping point by 2040.

 
Fire caused by deforestation in the Amazon in Roraima State, Brazil. John Maier, Jr., Still Pictures

Amazon fires 2021: moderate risk forecasted, but fuel enough for one of Earth’s ‘biggest bonfires’

What scientists predict for the world's largest rainforest's burns this year

 
Lago Agrio, Nueva Loja, Ecuador

Fast facts: the Amazon biome

The Amazon biome is home to up to 30% of the world’s known species. Here’s all you need to know about the world’s most diverse ecosystem.

 
Resin from damar (Shorea Javanica) trees provides livelihoods in Lampung, Indonesia. Ulet Ifansasti, CIFOR

Best of Landscape News 2020: Forests and Restoration

Our selection of this year's best forests and restoration stories

 
Smoke from the fire on Chehalem Mountain, Oregon clouds the sky. Sheila Sund, Flickr

World on fire 2020: Experts explain the global wildfire crisis

From the Amazon to Siberia, experts discuss the world’s 2020 fires, spanning climate change, deforestation and fire management

 

World on fire 2020: California and the Amazon

GLF Live with Leila Salazar-López and Daniel Nepstad

 
Firefighters practice putting out forest fires in Indonesia. Ricky Martin, CIFOR

What does COVID-19 mean for forest fires?

As the peak season for forest fires approaches in the tropics, experts warn the coronavirus pandemic could heighten its effects.

 

What are we learning from the Australian fires?

In examining the Australian fires, experts share on how Indigenous knowledge, relocation and government aid should be incorporated into fire aid globally.

 
Photo: Joe, Flickr

Burning questions answered, a 10,000-year flashback and a reminder not to hug the penguins

From what's on your shelves to what's in the atmosphere, here's all the latest climate news to know in Landscape News's bi-weekly digest.

 
Burning is used as land-clearing method for agriculture near Yangambi, Democratic Republic of Congo. Axel Fassio, CIFOR

How much should we worry about the Congo Basin fires?

Experts weigh in on what the satellite imagery and red alerts for burning in Central Africa actually mean for the world’s ‘second green lung.’

 
Fires burning in Central Kalimantan, a province in Indonesian Borneo. Sumarni Laman

How Indigenous youth are fighting the Indonesian fires

In Indonesian Borneo, young people are taking action on the raging peatland fires by providing safe shelter and educating locals on the air they breathe.

 
Between 22 and 27 August 2019, estimates say forest fires in Bolivia doubled. Romaneth Hidalgo

From the frontlines: Fighting Bolivia’s forest fires

A firefighter tells what’s happening in the dry forests burning in Bolivia as the flames get closer to one of the most biodiverse parts of the Amazon.

 

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