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Deforestation remains low, but fires surge in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest

In Bolivia, Indigenous communities struggle to rebuild as wildfires return

The Amazon is ablaze again. What it means for us (commentary)

As logging intensifies forest fires, Wet’suwet’en fight to protect old growth

Sumatra citizen lawsuit seeks accountability for haze-causing fires

Brazil launches ‘war’ on widespread fire outbreaks & criminal arsonists

As the world burns, can we learn to live with wildfire health risks?

The health impacts of escalating megafires are everyone’s problem

Pantanal’s intense blazes stoke fears of another destructive fire season

Fire bans not effective as the Amazon and Pantanal burn, study says

Borneo’s Dayak adapt Indigenous forestry to modern peat management

Bangladesh to formalize fire mitigation plans for Sundarbans as burning risk rises

On a Borneo mountainside, Indigenous Dayak women hold fire and defend forest

Amid ravaging wildfires in Venezuela, experts cite institutional collapse

Amid record-high fires across the Amazon, Brazil loses primary forests

As fires ravaged Indonesia in 2023, some positive trends emerged, data show

Tropical forest loss puts 2030 zero-deforestation target further out of reach

Fanned by El Niño, megafires in Brazil threaten Amazon’s preserved areas

Studies still uncovering true extent of 2019-20 Australia wildfire catastrophe

Sumatra firefighters on alert as burning heralds start of Riau dry season

Bolivia’s El Curichi Las Garzas protected area taken over by land-grabbers

Authorities struggle to protect Bolivian national park from drug-fueled deforestation

Megafires are spreading in the Amazon — and they are here to stay

Civil-backed proposal seeks to address root causes of Thailand’s choking haze

Amazonia in flames: Unlearned lessons from the 2023 Manaus smoke crisis (commentary)

Indonesian palm oil firm fined for fires sues expert a second time over testimony

2023 fires increase fivefold in Indonesia amid El Niño

The year in rainforests: 2023

Traditional small farmers burned by Indonesia’s war on wildfires

Do tree-planting projects on grasslands increase fire risk?

As U.S. insurers stop covering prescribed burns, states and communities step up

Forests hold massive carbon storage potential — if we cut emissions

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