The number of fires in Brazil's Amazon basin is still on the rise, even though the government has banned burning, officials said Saturday. In the first 48 hours since the ban was issued, satellite data from the National Space Research Institute (INPE) showed 3,859 new outbreaks of fire, of which some 2,000 were concentrated in the Amazon region.

Brazil's Amazon basin fires keep surging

Ireland may vote to block a trade deal between the EU and South American nations if Brazil fails to curb record fires ravaging the Amazon, Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said Friday.

Now, Ireland may block EU-Mercosur deal over Amazon fire

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said on Friday he is considering deploying the army to help combat fires in the Amazon rainforest, amid growing international pressure over the wildfires.

Brazil President Bolsonaro mulls deploying army to combat Amazon fires

Bollywood celebrities have come together to raise their voice for the Amazon rainforests in Brazil as they have been engulfed in multiple fires for the past three weeks.

Akshay Kumar, Alia Bhatt and other B-Town stars raise their voice for Amazon forest fires

NASA in a report has said that its high-resolution satellites have shown that the world "is literally a greener place than it was 20 years ago" due to two emerging countries with the world’s biggest populations - China and India- leading in "greening on land".

China, India have helped in greening of Earth: NASA report

By Anthony Pereira The inauguration of Brazil’s new president, Jair Bolsonaro, has triggered fears that rates of deforestation in the Amazon will increase. There are indeed good reasons for concern about Bolsonaro’s administration.

Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has got the environmentalists worried

The Spheres` three glass domes house some 40,000 plants of 400 species

Amazon.com opens its own rainforest in Seattle

A sharp increase in forest fires stoked record losses in global forest cover equivalent to the area of New Zealand in 2016

Forest fires contributed to record global tree cover loss: Report

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