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COVID-19 and rainforest fires set up potential public health crisis

John Cannon 18 Jun 2020

Taylor and Tate: Canine-human teams rescue Australia’s fire-ravaged koalas

Laurel Neme 28 May 2020

Amazon fires may be worse in 2020 as deforestation and land grabbing spikes

Caio de Freitas Paes 18 May 2020

Australia’s logging ‘madness’ fuels more fires, hastens ecosystem collapse

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 13 May 2020

Extreme El Niño drought, fires contribute to Amazon insect collapse: Study

Taran Volckhausen 13 Mar 2020

Fire in Australia is a symptom of a degraded ecosystem (commentary)

Shane Emanuelle 28 Feb 2020

Escalating firestorms could turn Amazon from carbon sink to source: Study

Taran Volckhausen 6 Feb 2020

Upset about Amazon fires last year? Focus on deforestation this year (commentary)

Matt Finer 4 Feb 2020

Severe drought and other climate impacts are driving the platypus towards extinction

Mongabay.com 29 Jan 2020

In a season of wildfire, three strategies that work (commentary)

Katie Jung 18 Nov 2019

Deforestation preceded fires in ‘massive’ area of Amazon in 2019

John Cannon 14 Nov 2019

Forest soils take longer to recover from fires and logging than previously thought

Mike Gaworecki 22 Feb 2019

Should Trump be listening to indigenous people on fire management?

Erik Hoffner 10 Jan 2019

Fire fundamentally alters carbon dynamics in the Amazon

John Cannon 12 Oct 2018

Amazon forest to savannah tipping point could be far closer than thought (commentary)

Tom Lovejoy and Carlos Nobre 5 Mar 2018

Drought-driven wildfires on rise in Amazon basin, upping CO2 release

Claire Asher 22 Feb 2018

Catastrophic fires sweep through iconic Brazilian national park

Anna Sophie Gross 2 Nov 2017

Humans tripled length of wildfire season in US by sparking more than 800k blazes

Mike Gaworecki 27 Feb 2017

As Colorado and New Mexico burn, scientists say prepare for more

Jeremy Hance 12 Jun 2012

NASA image: New Mexico suffers record megafire

Jeremy Hance 4 Jun 2012

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