How the Amazon rainforest is faring under climate change.

How the Amazon rainforest is faring under climate change.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: I'm actually walking on the remains of the forest right now.
What was once verdant green is now reduced to this white powdery ash.
There are tree trunks smoldering in front of me.
Some are actually still shooting up flames.
That was me in 2015, when I went on an expedition to the Brazilian state of Rondonia to see what was happening to the rainforest there.
Despite promises by Brazil to stop deforestation as part of their Paris climate pledge, under the far-right leader Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro in 2019 and 2020, forest fires and deforestation hugely accelerated, and that caused a global outcry.
We're joined now by Antonio Nobre, one of Brazil's leading climate scientists.
Hello.
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ANTONIO NOBRE: Hi, Lulu.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: I spoke to you back in 2015, and this is what you told me then.