Brazil has experienced unprecedented wildfires in the last decade. Images of immense
burnt areas or dead animals that failed to escape the 2020 wildfires have shocked the world …

Climate change contributes to the increased frequency and intensity of wildfires globally,
with significant impacts on society and the environment. However, our understanding of the …

Amazonian environments are being degraded by modern industrial and agricultural
activities at a pace far above anything previously known, imperiling its vast biodiversity …

Aim The aim was to evaluate fire activity for the entire Amazon and Amazon regions within
each country/department from 2003 to 2020, assessing the potential contributions of drought …

Exceptional fire activity in 2019 sparked concern about Amazon forest conservation.
However, the inability to rapidly separate satellite fire detections by fire type hampered fire …

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is related to the use of fire to remove natural
vegetation and install crop cultures or pastures. In this study, we evaluated the relation …

Tropical forests provide essential environmental services to human well-being. In the world,
Brazil has the largest continuous area of these forests. However, in the state of Maranhão, in …

While the climate and human-induced forest degradation is increasing in the Amazon, fire
impacts on forest dynamics remain understudied in the wetter regions of the basin, which …

Land management and deforestation in tropical regions cause wildfires and forest
degradation, leading to a loss of ecosystem services and global climate regulation. The …

Fire is one of the main anthropogenic drivers that threatens the Amazon. Despite the clear
link between rainfall and fire, the spatial and temporal relationship between these variables …