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‘We are losing the Amazon rainforest’: Record number of wildfires in parts of Brazil

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Fire is sucking the life out of parts of the Amazon rainforest. In Roraima State, in northern Brazil, the number of fires in February were more than five times the average, according to data from Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research, and blazes continued to burn through March. “We are losing the Amazon rainforest. These … Read more

Pretty city that’s stranded in the middle of the jungle with no road access | Travel News | Travel

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A beautiful city that lies in the middle of a jungle is the largest in the world without road access. Iquitos in Peru is in the heart of the South American Amazon with a huge population of 420,000. However, with water on one side and jungle on the other, visiting this pretty hidden gem is … Read more