videoDetails![Video Thumbnail](https://english.cdn.zeenews.com/sites/default/files/styles/zm_700x400/public/2019/08/22/00000003_44.jpg?im=Resize=(400))
![Play icon](https://english.cdn.zeenews.com/static/public/icons/icon-vplay.svg)
Watch: DNA analysis of Amazon Fires
![Video Thumbnail](https://english.cdn.zeenews.com/sites/default/files/styles/zm_700x400/public/2019/08/22/00000003_44.jpg?im=Resize=(400))
There are no lights in sight but the night sky glows a dusky yellow, for the Amazon, is burning. Yes, the Amazon rainforests, the biome that sprawls over 7,000,000 square kilometers of the South American basin and generates more than 20% of the world's oxygen, is on fire, and the Western media is frighteningly apathetic about it.