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Amazon and Beyond: Brazil Faces Historic Year of Devastating Fires
In 2024, Brazil faced its worst wildfire season ever, according to official data from MapBiomas and the National Institute for Space Research. Fires burned about 30 million hectares across the country—an area almost as big as Italy. This is 62% more than the average since 1985. The Amazon rainforest suffered the most, with more than […]
Now we know that the fire that devoured South America last September, just as the southern hemisphere entered the spring, caused historic devastation in the Brazilian Amazon. The arsons that were intended to razed in 2024 more area of the world’s largest rainforest than ever in the last 40 years, according to satellite measurements. The flames burned exactly 156,000 square kilometers of rainforest, according to the balance presented this Tuesday…
Brazil Records 62% Jump In Area Burned By Forest Fires: Monitor
300,000 square kilometers of forest burned down in Brazil in 2024. One reason for the sad record was an unprecedented drought. But illegal grubbing up also plays a role.
In 2024 a record area of forests in Brazil was destroyed by fires, according to a report. According to experts, the main cause of the fires is clear.
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Brazil records 62% jump in area burned by forest fires: monitor
Historic forest fires in Brazil last year scorched through an area larger than the size of Italy, recording a burned area some 60 percent higher than average of the last four decades, said a report released…
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