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Fifty-nine percent of Brazil's area suffers from significant drought conditions, the worst national drought recorded. These conditions cause historically low Amazon basin levels and are contributing to at least 160,000 wildfires in 2024 that are causing widespread air pollution.
2024-09-9

Forty-eight cities in Brazil issue red alerts for prolonged heavy and hazardous smog originating from extensive wildfires.
2024-08-27

At least two people are killed in wildfires in São Paulo state, Brazil.
2024-08-25

At least two people are killed at an industrial plant in Urupês after trying to control widespread wildfires impacting at least 30 cities in São Paulo state, Brazil.
2024-08-24

It is reported that wildfires have burned around 32000 ha of tropical wetland in Brazil's Pantanal so far this year, a 935% increase in the number of fires that occurred in the same period last year.
2024-06-10

Twenty-four people have been executed in Syria for deliberately starting wildfires in late 2020 that killed three people.
2021-10-21

Hundreds of firefighters and rescue workers are deployed to battle wildfires in Ukraine's eastern Luhansk Oblast. The fires have killed six people and destroyed more than 120 houses. Luhansk Governor Serhiy Haidai says some of the fires may have been caused by arson.
2020-07-7

Protesters in Brazil hold a violent demonstration against a proposed public spending cap in the capital Brasilia. Police used tear gas and rubber bullets in order to disperse the demonstrators.
2016-11-29

Clashes erupt outside the presidential palace in Brazil's capital Brasília between anti-Workers' Party protesters and supporters of ex-president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, where he was due to be sworn in as President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff's chief of staff. Hundreds of anti-government protesters calling for Rousseff's impeachment and Lula's arrest also blocked the central Paulista Avenue in São Paulo, Brazil's largest city and economic hub.
2016-03-17

Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, best known for designing the main buildings of the capital Brasília, dies at the age of 104 in a Rio de Janeiro hospital.
2012-12-5