A large fire in a recently deforested area of the Amazon rainforest along Highway BR-319 in the state of Amazonas, Brazil, on Sept. 25. Bruno Kelly for NPR hide caption
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Yevgeniy Medvedovskiy, the chief of the Zhytomyr region's department of ecological inspection, walks around the site of the jet crash picking up shards of metal and looking at the fallen trees. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
Viktor Radushinskiy, a member of Ukraine's forestry department in Zhytomyr, looks at a site in the northern Ukrainian woods where a fighter jet crashed. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
Shredded trees, dead dolphins and wildfires — how Russia's invasion is hurting nature
"This used to be paradise. Now it's hell," says pine resin producer Giorgos Anagnostou, 38, standing on top of a mountain near his village of Kourkouloi in northern Evia. The fire wiped out the forest's pine trees and his livelihood. Demetrios Ioannou for NPR hide caption
Climate Change Destroyed A Way Of Life On The Once-Idyllic Greek Island Of Evia
A cedar tree that burned in a recent wildfire, in the Mishmish forest, Akkar, Lebanon. Sam Tarling for NPR hide caption
A firefighter participates in a controlled burn in a forest outside El Perelló in Catalonia, Spain, on Sept. 27. NPR followed a special unit into the woods in Spain to see how they burn for prevention. Aaron Labaree for NPR hide caption
A wildfire blazes near the town of Roboré, in eastern Bolivia's Santa Cruz region, on Aug. 21. AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Bolivia Is Fighting Major Forest Fires Nearly As Large As In Brazil
An aerial view of a forest fire in Russia's Krasnoyarsk Territory. TASS via Getty Images hide caption