Upper Amazon

After three years of planning, five expeditions and a two-week trek through dense jungle, scientists have reached the tallest tree ever found in the Amazon rainforest, a towering specimen the size of a 25-storey building.

Brazil is open to receive financial assistance from organizations and foreign countries to fight the fires in the Amazon.

This was announced by a government spokesman after the Brazilian authorities had earlier rejected the G7 proposal. The condition, however, is for Brazil to decide for itself how to use the funds.

Pope Francis has expressed concern about the fires that are devastating the Amazon forest, which he called "a vital lung for the planet," according to world agencies.

World Wildlife Fund (WWF) experts presented a catalog of 381 previously unknown plants and animals found in the Brazilian Amazon in Sao Paulo, the Globul TV channel reported. A source of information on these organisms is publications in scientific journals from 2014-2015, which have been systematized.