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    The Amazon Rainforest, Ablaze In Brazil

    There have been 74,155 fires in Brazil so far this year, mostly in the Amazon, and about half of which have ignited in just the past month. Some international leaders are raising the alarm.
    by Suzette Lohmeyer Aug 23, 2019 1 minute
    Smoke billows during a fire in an area of the Amazon rainforest near Humaita, Brazil, on Aug. 17.

    Fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest are proliferating at an alarming rate.

    "Our house is burning. Literally. The Amazon rain forest – the lungs which produces.

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