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The Yungas Road, popularly known as the Death Road, is a 64-kilometre (40 mi) long cycle route linking the city of La Paz with the Yungas region of Bolivia. It was conceived in the 1930s by the Bolivian government to connect the capital city of La Paz with the Amazon Rainforest in the north part of the country.
Data from Brazil's INPE space agency show that there have been 82,117 active fire outbreaks in Bolivia this year until Oct. 6, only 1,000 shy of the full-year record in 2010.
The Highway of Death (Arabic: طريق الموت ṭarīq al-mawt) is a six-lane highway between Kuwait and Iraq, officially known as Highway 80. It runs from Kuwait City to the border town of Safwan in Iraq and then on to the Iraqi city of Basra. The road was used by Iraqi armored divisions for the 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
Based on Global Wildfire Information System satellite imaging, about 346,112 wildfire hotspots damaged or destroyed 85,866,867 hectares (~212,181,650 acres). The massive area burned was primarily caused by anthropogenic climate change and the resulting consequences of the 2023–2024 South American drought on fire conditions.
Wildfires in Bolivia are now running on a track to set an all-time record, latest satellite data show, with fire hot-spots to-date overtaking the rate in the same period during major blazes in ...
In Bolivia, Santa Cruz has seen deforestation of some 8 million hectares (19.8 million acres) over the last 20 years, said Alcides Vadillo, a researcher at the Tierra Foundation, leading to more ...
The Forest fires in Bolivia in 2024 or 2024 Bolivian Wildfires are a set of fires that started between July 8 and July 10, 2024, with multiple outbreaks starting in the Llanos de Chiquitos and Bolivian Amazon regions, with the highest concentration between the departments of Beni and Santa Cruz.
In Bolivia's highland city of El Alto, the row of colorful corrugated metal roofs - blues, oranges, reds and greens - for a moment distracts from the terrifying sight below: a precipitous drop ...