(Reuters) - A low pressure system located about 1,100 miles (1,770 km) east-southeast of the Windward Islands has a 60% chance of becoming a tropical cyclone in the next 48 hours, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said on Friday. It…

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Friday he will deploy federal troops with appropriate equipment to fight the fires in the Amazon rainforest, blaming dryer-than-normal weather for the spike in fire outbreaks this year. In a…

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in front of a portrait of former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln prior to presenting the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Boston Celtics legend and Basketball Hall of Famer Bob Cousy at the White…

BRASILIA (Reuters) - European leaders on Friday threatened to tear up a trade deal with South America, reflecting the growing international dismay and anger with Brazil as a record number of fires in the Amazon rainforest intensified the unfolding environmental…

BRASILIA (Reuters) - The Brazilian army will be deployed to fight fires in the Amazon rainforest, the governor of the Amazon state of Roraima said on Friday. Governor Antonio Denarium told reporters in Brasilia that President Jair Bolsonaro had signed…

From NPR NPR’s Audie Cornish talks with Doug Morton of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center about what satellite imagery can tell us about the cause and extent of the fires in Brazil. Read the full article from NPR

From NPR Brazilians have taken to the streets in protest over destruction being done to the Amazon through wildfires and tree cutting. They say the new right-wing president is fueling the destruction. Read the full article from NPR

From NPR NPR’s Ailsa Chang talks with Nature correspondent Jeff Tollefson about the Amazon Fund and the web of diplomacy aiming to prevent deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. Read the full article from NPR

PARIS (Reuters) - The Amazon needs better management to end the ‘ecocide’ that is going on in the rainforest, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday ahead of a G7 summit at the weekend. As forest fires rage in Brazil,…

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Uncontrolled fires sweeping through the Amazon rainforest could scuttle Brazil’s chances of becoming a member of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), worried business leaders said on Friday. People attend a protest outside the Brazilian…