More forest burning.

• Position: World Watch Updates - Brief Article

We noted in 1996 that the numbers of tires in the Amazon (most of them deliberately set) had risen throughout the early 1990s, reaching 40,000 fires in 1995. Now, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization warns that fires are increasingly damaging the world's forests in temperate, as well as tropical, areas. In Russia, 9.6 million...