How AI, drones and virtual reality could help tackle the Amazon fires

This month, images of the burning Amazon rainforest have reverberated around the world. These fires, believed to have been set deliberately by cattle ranchers and loggers, have now spun out of control, leading to unprecedented destruction and dire warnings from environmentalists that the crisis will lead to the loss of a precious ecosystem and an acceleration of climate change. Brazil has rejected aid and the crisis has been blamed on the country's president Jair Bolsonaro, who critics say has encouraged farmers and loggers to burn far more of the forest than they typically do to clear land in order to graze cattle. But elsewhere, technology is helping some communities prevent and tackle wildfires...