The Amazon is the biggest rainforest in the world.

If we were standing in the middle of it right now, we'd be surrounded by 2.5 million species of insects. The air would be thick with moisture,

thanks to 390 billion trees that exude gallons of water every day.

All around us would be thousands upon thousands of species of plants and animals, many hidden, many yet undiscovered.

There is also something present that we can't see or feel. An enormous repository of carbon

that's been sucked out of the atmosphere and safely stored away. This place is

burning. From the summer of 2018 to the summer of 2019 more than 3,700

square miles of the Amazon were destroyed, a 30% increase from the previous year.

And thinks have only gotten worse since the COVID pandemic began.

Without big changes soon, the Amazon as we know it could be lost,

and the carbon could be released.

The Amazon Rainforest is on fire again.

Whole mountains, hills and valleys engulfed in smoke.

Burning at a record-breaking pace, sparking serious concerns around the world.

Scientists say we may have reached a tipping point.

If just 3% more of the Amazon is destroyed,

there will be no turning back.

I'm Gabriel Sierra, and this is why it matters.

Today the Amazon Rainforest at a tipping point

and the climate disaster that hangs in the Amazon frequently. So how are they started? Are they sort of like the California

wildfires or is it something completely

different? So actually they're quite different from wildfires in other parts of the

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