Amazon rainforest

A “smoke screen” caused by the out-of-control fires in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil hit southern neighbors Argentina and Uruguay this week, local Argentine and Uruguayan media reported.

Sao Paulo, the largest city in Brazil, awoke shrouded in wildfire smoke on Monday as a record number of fires blazed in the greater Sao Paulo state and the greater Amazon, killing at least three and threatening to engulf one of the world’s largest ecosystems.

The Amazonian regions of Brazil have spent much of August hidden under a plume of toxic smoke, suffering the highest number of documented forest fires in nearly two decades.

Update: One of the authors of the original New York Times story upon which this article is based published a new piece insisting that porn addiction is not prevalent in the Amazon tribe he reported on.

French President Emmanuel Macron spent much of the week touring the Amazon Rainforest alongside his Brazilian counterpart, radical leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Officials overseeing the Brazilian Amazon registered almost 3,000 fires during February, marking a new record for the South American country, according to data released by Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE).

Brazilian radical leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said on Monday that he hopes to see more American investments in Brazil’s green energy projects one week after failing to invite President Joe Biden to an environmental summit despite Biden pledging $500 million to Lula’s Amazon fund.

Brazil failed to invite the United States to participate in the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) summit beginning on Tuesday – a notable omission given that President Joe Biden pledged 2.5 billion Brazilian reais ($500 million) to Brazil’s Amazon Fund this year.

Brazilian radical leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed a decree over the weekend that authorizes the purchase of electricity from neighboring Venezuela, a nation plagued with daily blackouts as a result of years of gross socialist mismanagement.

Over 100 million Americans in 23 states suffered a dramatic collapse in their air quality this week as a result of Canadian wildfire smoke.

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon reached its worst-ever February levels during the second month of socialist convicted felon Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s third presidential term, according to data from Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research.

Hollywood actor Mark Ruffalo made an appearance at a campaign rally for socialist ex-President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil this week, urging Brazilians to vote for current President Jair Bolsonaro’s rival “for my children and your children.”

Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday erupted in a Twitter rant against actor Leonardo DiCaprio and other celebrity environmental activists after DiCaprio complained about Amazon deforestation growing worse during Bolsonaro’s administration.

A Brazilian investigative journalist group on Monday published documents that showed the “four most valuable companies in the world” – namely Apple, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon – purchased gold illegally mined in the Amazon region for use in their electronic products.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro mocked Hollywood actor Mark Ruffalo and appeared to insult his intelligence on Thursday in response to Ruffalo accusing Bolsonaro of threatening a “coup” in his own country.

A years-long feud between Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and American actor Leonardo DiCaprio continued this week with the president suggesting that DiCaprio’s environmental activism was disingenuous, given his frequent use of private jets and luxury yachts.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro devoted much of his speech to the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday to touting his country’s business environment and talking up progress on Amazon deforestation, but for much of the media, it was difficult to hear Bolsonaro over the sound of him not being vaccinated.

U.S. President Joe Biden’s “obsession with the environment” has “hindered” Brazil’s attempts to form a stronger diplomatic relationship with Washington, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said this week.

Dozens of high-profile American celebrities — including Leonardo DiCaprio, Jane Fonda, Alec Baldwin, Katy Perry, and Mark Ruffalo — signed a letter this week pressuring President Joe Biden not to engage in any negotiations on environmental issues with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, a staunch conservative and longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, sent a letter to his successor Joe Biden on Wednesday congratulating him on his inauguration and floating the possibility of a new Brazil-U.S. free trade agreement.

Hospitals in Manaus, the regional capital of Brazil’s Amazonas deep in the eponymous rain forest, began reporting shortages of oxygen Thursday, reportedly forcing doctors to inject dying Chinese coronavirus patients with morphine to ease the pain of asphyxiation.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro issued an outraged statement Wednesday morning in response to Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden threatening to wage economic war on his country during the presidential debate the night before, exclaiming, “what a shame!”

The Amazon rainforest is “approaching a point of no return under the effect of climate change and could turn into an arid savannah within half a century,” Agence France Press (AFP) reported this week.

China and Brazil launched an observational satellite into orbit on Friday to observe the Amazon rainforest, the two countries announced.

Thousands of people took to the streets in the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz on Sunday in protest this week against far-left President Evo Morales over his handling of wildfires that have ripped through swaths of the country’s forests this year.

Bolivia’s far-left leader Evo Morales lectured the United Nations General Assembly on the evils of capitalism on Tuesday, blaming the unspecified “global oligarchy” for the majority of the world’s ills. 

Greenland is melting at a record pace and the Amazon is burning, Univision anchor Jorge Ramos claimed during the Democrat debate Thursday night in Houston, Texas. 

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro blamed ongoing fires in the Amazon Rainforest on conservative Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday, claiming the fires “make [him] want to cry” and that Bolsonaro is “destroying humanity.”

President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil decried environmentalist panic over fires sprawling over the Amazon Rainforest on Tuesday, noting, “I would like there to be fewer fires, of course, but they are under the average of the past few years.”

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro suggested on Tuesday that his nation may still accept a $20 million donation organized by French President Emmanuel Macron for combating fires in the Amazon Rainforest, but only if the French leader “withdraws the insults he has hurled against me.”