'No more fires,' demand fed-up Amazon residents

Breves, Brazil (AFP) Jan 9, 2025

Giovana Serrao was not home when a fire lit in a neighboring agricultural field got out of control and destroyed her acai palms on the island of Marajo in the Brazilian Amazon. Paulinho dos Santos remembers the dark nights in November when he would leap out of bed to use buckets of water to douse flames threatening his farm. And Maria Leao's two daughters suffered sinusitis, caused by a