As the fire season reaches its peak in the Amazon region, coffee producers located thousands of kilometers away are also living their own private hell. Farms like Felipe Barretto Croce’s in Mococa, in the state of São Paulo, have seen fires increase in recent years, jeopardizing the production of what is the world’s largest coffee […]
A changing climate is an obvious culprit, with elevated temperatures generating more severe weather, drying out landscapes and then whipping them into an inferno with strong winds
About a third of the remaining Amazon rainforest has been severely degraded by human activity, and the emissions from this activity are equivalent to or even greater than emissions caused by deforestation, according to a new study