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Earth's tropical forests are "time capsules" of human history stretching back hundreds of years.

The fires that have devastated Australia began in September. Since then, millions of hectares of land have burned.

The Trump administration's U.S. Forest Service has allowed Canadian mining company Midas Gold to write their own environmental assessment for a controversial proposed gold mine in Idaho, according to The Associated Press.

Eighty of the 96 known harlequin toad species are considered endangered, critically endangered or extinct in the wild, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List.

"These fires are now not just an environmental catastrophe, they're also potentially genocidal," Survival International Director Stephen Corry said in a statement.

"The environment is currently one of the major battlefields over the shape of the global economy, on a par with armed conflicts and calls for urgent and immediate action," one expert told Newsweek.

The Earth is in the grips of what scientists have dubbed the "Sixth Mass Extinction" with the global rate of species extinction at least "tens to hundreds of times higher" than the average over the past 10 million years.

The group are under serious threat from the logging industry.

Mitchell McNamee, the owner of Rorkes Beer, Wine and Food in Darwin, Australia, is facing scrutiny from staff and the media over his alleged racist policies.

"They say he's the Donald Trump of Brazil. Can you believe that? But he likes it," Trump said.

Drumming patterns are used to emulate spoken phrases.

The genetic discovery confirms descendants' long-held beliefs.

The "spiral of human bones" included adolescents, a toddler and an infant.

"The thing that surprised us the most was the sheer size of some of the engravings."

"In a sense, we see the birth of what would be the start of what we would come to know as the Americas."

The Canadian prime minister spent most of his U.N. speech lamenting Canada's greatest shame.

Traditional ways of life are getting harder