Following the August 2019 news that the G7 economic forum agreed to pledge $20 million to contain fires tearing through the Amazon rainforest, digital artist Todd Vaziri‘s note of perspective on Twitter struck a chord online. Vaziri — who has
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Truth or Fiction?→ Was an Ecuadorian Tribe’s Rainforest Home Hit by a Rash of Wildfires?
As awareness of unprecedented wildfires hitting rainforests in the Brazilian Amazon spread online in August 2019, social media users began drawing links between the blazes and a court victory for an indigenous Ecuadorian tribe weeks earlier. On July 1
Truth or Fiction?→ Did United States President Donald Trump Threaten to Withhold Disaster Funding from California?
Sizable wildfires burning up and down California have killed at least 25 people and destroyed at least one entire Northern California town, Paradise. The exact toll and cost as of November 11, 2018 is still unknown, because at least two enormously dest
Snopes→ FDNY: 32 People Hurt, Some Seriously, in Apartment Fire
The Fire Department of New York said 32 people were taken to hospitals — some with serious injuries — following a fire in a Brooklyn apartment building.