US EditionA continent ablaze: South America surpasses record for fires
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As fires rage from Brazil to Bolivia, South America sets a record for most blazes in a year
South America is being ravaged by fire from Brazil’s Amazon rainforest through the world’s largest wetlands to dry forests in Bolivia, breaking a previous record for the number of blazes seen in a year up to Sept. 11. Satellite data analyzed by Brazil’s space research agency Inpe has registered 346,112 fire hotspots so far this year in all 13 countries of South America, topping the earlier 2007 record of 345,322 hotspots in a data series that go…
Fires are raging across South America, from the Brazilian Amazon rainforest to the dry forests of Bolivia to the world's largest wetlands, breaking the record for the number of fires recorded in a year since Sept. 11. Satellite data analyzed by Brazil's space research agency Inpe has recorded 346,112 fire outbreaks in South America so far this year [...] The post South America surpasses record number of fires first appeared on latinapress news.
Brasilia. -The fires are ravaging South America, from the Brazilian Amazon rainforest to the dry forests of Bolivia, to the largest wetlands in the world, and have broken the record for fires recorded in a year up to September 11. Satellite data analyzed by the Brazilian space research agency Inpe have registered 346,112 fire outbreaks so far this year in South America, surpassing the 2007 record of 345,322 outbreaks in a series of data dating b…
Forbes, the most renowned business and economics magazine in the world. Bruno Kelly/REUTERS/Data from INPE registered more than 346.1 thousand fire outbreaks this year in all 13 South American countries. South America is on fire. A wave of fires that extends from the Amazon rainforest, through the Pantanal and the Bolivian forests sweeps the continent. As a result, it broke the record for the number of fires in the year up to last Wednesday, Se…
A series of forest fires, stretching from the Amazon to the forests of Bolivia, set a new record for outbreaks of fire in South America, the highest in more than 20 years. According to the BD Queimadas program, from the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), as of September 12, 346,112 fire outbreaks were registered in the 13 countries of the region, surpassing the previous record, which dated 2007. The smoke resulting from these fires al…
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