Amazon Rainforest

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Sciences & Technology

The big picture of the Amazon fires

As the world’s biggest rainforest continues to burn, it’s important to understand the political and social situation in Brazil that led us to this point

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Sciences & Technology

Why are our rainforests burning?

Many of us may think the wet, humid conditions in a rainforest makes them unburnable, but bushfires in Australia and the Amazon are proving otherwise

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