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Sunday, February 22, 2026
TopicAmazon fires

Topic: Amazon fires

Japan reinvents concerts, UK’s hefty pandemic bill and other global Covid news

As the Covid-19 pandemic shows no signs of letting up, ThePrint highlights the most important stories on the crisis from across the globe.

The Amazon is still burning, only now the world isn’t watching

Unlike last year, when images of 300-year-old trees ablaze fuelled international outrage, little stands in the way now.

Amazon’s gold, military legacy fuel Brazilian President Bolsonaro’s rainforest rage

Jair Bolsonaro, the subject of global criticism for fanning the flames of the Amazon's destruction, believes the rainforest is a Brazilian asset and not the world's.

Why Brazil has refused G7 funds to tackle Amazon wildfires

Brazil has witnessed a dramatic 85 per cent rise in wildfires in the Amazon rainforest this year.

Many reasons to be appalled by Amazon fires but depleting oxygen supply not one of them

Even a huge increase in forest fires would produce changes in oxygen that are difficult to measure. There’s enough oxygen in the air to last for millions of years.

On Camera

Youth Congress, your foolish protest helped the Modi govt climb out of the AI summit hole

In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.