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Firefighters from the ICMBio (Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation), Brazil's federal protected areas agency, use helicopters and make firebreaks to combat a blaze in the Amazon rainforest. Nearly 3,000 forest fires were registered in the Brazilian Amazon in February 2024, the highest for any February since records began in 1999, and made more likely by climate change, according to experts. IMAGES
Images of a plane in the Brazilian Amazon after fourteen people were killed in a crash while trying to land in stormy weather in the tourist town of Barcelos, leaving no survivors. IMAGES
Firefights combat wildfires in Brazil's Acre state Amazon forest. IMAGES
Drone images of Amazon forest affected by wildfires in Brazil's Rondonia state. IMAGES
French president Emmanuel Macron arrives at the presidential palace in Brasilia where he is received by his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Macron's three-day state visit to Brazil ends on a more political note, with the focus on his disagreement with his counterpart Lula over Ukraine. IMAGES