“The forest is their world, so when you burn it, they die.” The Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS), which tracks wildfires by satellite, shows around 10,400 fires in Peru in ...

Peru's National Emergency Operations Center (COEN) of the National Civil Defense Institute (Indeci) reported that in recent weeks, 233 forest fires have been reported nationwide.

The Lula administration has announced plans to increase fines for violators. New report uncovers disturbing factor driving ...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Wildfires in Peru have left ... a specialist in monitoring and management of forest Fires at SERFOR. "This allows the fires to spread rapidly." Some of the most complicated ...

The number of forest fires in the Amazon regions of Colombia, Peru and Venezuela is up on this time last year. For Amazonian countries, mining and agriculture is driving deforestation and as a ...

In Peru, one woman died and at least 19 other people were intoxicated due to forest fires in the northern region of Lambayeque. According to local media, the victim was a 40-year-old peasant in ...

From Bolivia to Brazil, Peru to Argentina ... already affected around 25% of the forest. “The forests are drying out, making them more vulnerable to fires,” Marlene Quintanilla, the research ...

amid global concern over massive fires in the world's largest tropical forest. Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru and Suriname signed a pact, setting up a disaster response network ...

More than 420,000 children in the Amazon basin are being badly affected by a drought parching much of South America that is ...

The consequences of climate change are already taking a toll in Latin America, with an extended drought. A worst-case ...