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Brazilians "Struggle To Breathe" As Amazon Forest Burns In Wildfire
Residents of Porto Velho in the Brazilian Amazon have barely seen sunlight in days as a thick cloud of smoke from forest fires envelops their city.
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Deforestation Wiped Out 8% Of Amazon Rainforest In 18 Years: Study
Deforestation in the Amazon destroyed an area bigger than Spain from 2000 to 2018, wiping out eight percent of the world's largest rainforest, according to a study released Tuesday.
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Tropical Rainforest Doesn't Catch Fire, Amazon Is Burning Is A Lie: Brazil President
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has said it is a "lie" that fires are ravaging the Amazon rainforest, despite data from his own government showing the number of blazes is rising.
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"Amazon Not Being Devastated Or Consumed By Fire": Brazil President
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said Tuesday it was a lie that the Amazon was being devastated by fire and accused countries critical of him of having a "colonialist spirit."
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Indonesia Rainforest Fires Surge, Concerns Rise About Global Warming
The number of blazes in Indonesia's rainforests has jumped sharply, satellite data showed Thursday, spreading smog across Southeast Asia and adding to concerns about the impact of increasing wildfire outbreaks worldwide on global warming.
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Amazon Nations Meet In Indigenous Hut At Colombia Over Forest Protection
Presidents and ministers from seven Amazon countries met in Colombia on Friday to agree on measures to protect the world's biggest rainforest, under threat from wildfires and rampant deforestation.
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Brazil President To Skip Summit On Amazon Fires On Doctor's Orders
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro will skip a regional summit on fires that have devastated swaths of the Amazon because doctors want him to get ready for surgery scheduled for next week, a spokesman said Monday.
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New Outbreaks Of Fire In Brazil's Amazon Forest
The number of fires in Brazil's Amazon basin is still on the rise, even though the government has banned burning, officials said on Saturday.
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Amazon Forest Faces Threat From Fires, Mining, Land Occupation And Logging
Raging wildfires have drawn the world's attention to the Amazon but immolation is just one of the dangers facing the world's largest rain forest, environmental experts across the region say.
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Brazil's Bolsonaro To Stop Using French Pens Amid Spat Over Amazon Fires
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said Friday he will stop using disposable pens made by France's Bic to sign official documents, while a diplomatic spat continues over fires in the Amazon basin.
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Why Is Jair Bolsonaro Wary Of Foreign Amazon Aid? Ask Brazil's Military
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's furious reaction to foreign criticism of his handling of Amazon fires reflects the sacred place the vast region occupies in the minds of Brazil's military, for whom the rainforest is almost a raison d'etre.
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Brazil Bans Burning For 2 Months In Fight Against Amazon Fire
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro signed a decree Wednesday to ban burning throughout the country for two months, government sources cited in local media said, as the authorities scramble to defuse the Amazon fires which have triggered a global outcry.
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Brazil President "Working Very Hard" On Amazon Fires, Says Donald Trump
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday endorsed Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's response to the fires raging in the Amazon and pledged "full and complete" US support.
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Brazil President Open To G7 Aid For Amazon Fires If France "Withdraws Insults"
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said Tuesday he was open to discussing G7 aid for fighting fires in the Amazon if his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron "withdraws insults" made against him.
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Rain Unlikely To Extinguish Amazon Forest Fires Anytime Soon, Say Experts
Weak rainfall is unlikely to extinguish a record number of fires raging in Brazil's Amazon anytime soon, with pockets of precipitation through September 10 expected to bring only isolated relief, according to weather data and two experts.
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Brazilians "Struggle To Breathe" As Amazon Forest Burns In Wildfire
Residents of Porto Velho in the Brazilian Amazon have barely seen sunlight in days as a thick cloud of smoke from forest fires envelops their city.
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Deforestation Wiped Out 8% Of Amazon Rainforest In 18 Years: Study
Deforestation in the Amazon destroyed an area bigger than Spain from 2000 to 2018, wiping out eight percent of the world's largest rainforest, according to a study released Tuesday.
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Tropical Rainforest Doesn't Catch Fire, Amazon Is Burning Is A Lie: Brazil President
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has said it is a "lie" that fires are ravaging the Amazon rainforest, despite data from his own government showing the number of blazes is rising.
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"Amazon Not Being Devastated Or Consumed By Fire": Brazil President
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said Tuesday it was a lie that the Amazon was being devastated by fire and accused countries critical of him of having a "colonialist spirit."
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Indonesia Rainforest Fires Surge, Concerns Rise About Global Warming
The number of blazes in Indonesia's rainforests has jumped sharply, satellite data showed Thursday, spreading smog across Southeast Asia and adding to concerns about the impact of increasing wildfire outbreaks worldwide on global warming.
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Amazon Nations Meet In Indigenous Hut At Colombia Over Forest Protection
Presidents and ministers from seven Amazon countries met in Colombia on Friday to agree on measures to protect the world's biggest rainforest, under threat from wildfires and rampant deforestation.
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Brazil President To Skip Summit On Amazon Fires On Doctor's Orders
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro will skip a regional summit on fires that have devastated swaths of the Amazon because doctors want him to get ready for surgery scheduled for next week, a spokesman said Monday.
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New Outbreaks Of Fire In Brazil's Amazon Forest
The number of fires in Brazil's Amazon basin is still on the rise, even though the government has banned burning, officials said on Saturday.
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Amazon Forest Faces Threat From Fires, Mining, Land Occupation And Logging
Raging wildfires have drawn the world's attention to the Amazon but immolation is just one of the dangers facing the world's largest rain forest, environmental experts across the region say.
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Brazil's Bolsonaro To Stop Using French Pens Amid Spat Over Amazon Fires
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said Friday he will stop using disposable pens made by France's Bic to sign official documents, while a diplomatic spat continues over fires in the Amazon basin.
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Why Is Jair Bolsonaro Wary Of Foreign Amazon Aid? Ask Brazil's Military
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's furious reaction to foreign criticism of his handling of Amazon fires reflects the sacred place the vast region occupies in the minds of Brazil's military, for whom the rainforest is almost a raison d'etre.
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Brazil Bans Burning For 2 Months In Fight Against Amazon Fire
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro signed a decree Wednesday to ban burning throughout the country for two months, government sources cited in local media said, as the authorities scramble to defuse the Amazon fires which have triggered a global outcry.
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Brazil President "Working Very Hard" On Amazon Fires, Says Donald Trump
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday endorsed Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's response to the fires raging in the Amazon and pledged "full and complete" US support.
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Brazil President Open To G7 Aid For Amazon Fires If France "Withdraws Insults"
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said Tuesday he was open to discussing G7 aid for fighting fires in the Amazon if his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron "withdraws insults" made against him.
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Rain Unlikely To Extinguish Amazon Forest Fires Anytime Soon, Say Experts
Weak rainfall is unlikely to extinguish a record number of fires raging in Brazil's Amazon anytime soon, with pockets of precipitation through September 10 expected to bring only isolated relief, according to weather data and two experts.
