AT the start of his new movie, marmalade-loving bear Paddington gets into bother reaching for an orange hanging on a tree.

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 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 ...

At least 15 people have died as a result of uncontrollable forest fires that have affected 22 of Peru's 24 departments. Peru's National Civil Defense Institute (Indeci) said that the departments ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

A record number of fires tore through Peru over the past few weeks ... Portuguese firefighters died on Tuesday in one of dozens of forest blazes ravaging the country's central and northern ...

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 ...

Using a difference-in-differences design, the researchers compared fire activity in Brazil with that in Peru and Bolivia ... sustainable development. Forest fires in the Amazon, a critical ...