Labrea, which has a population of less than 50,000 in an area larger than West Virginia, has been on fire in recent weeks – literally.

LaBrea is a free, open-source application that stops worms such as Nimda from spreading. When installed on a network, it looks for unused IP addresses, then creates virtual machines that pretend ...

Fires next to the borders of the Kaxarari Indigenous Territory in Labrea, Amazonas state, Brazil, on Aug. 17, 2020. Image by Christian Braga/Greenpeace.

Aerial view of an illegal fire in the Amazon rainforest on the banks of the BR-230 (Transamazon Highway), near the city of Labrea, Amazonas state, northern Brazil, Sept. 4, 2024.

An area consumed by fires sits scorched near Labrea, Amazonas state, Brazil, Friday, Aug. 7, 2020. According to the National Institute for Space Research, fires in the Brazilian Amazon increased ...