French President Emmanuel Macron called it "an international crisis" and urged fellow world leaders to take action during their upcoming G-7 summit. Hetweeted: "Our house is burning. Literally. The Amazon rain forest – the lungs which produces 20% of our planet's oxygen – is on...
which some world leaders still deny is aman-made problem. The fires in the Amazon rainforest, however, are undeniably caused by people. Therainforest is a wet place and does not catch fire easily,so natural forest fires...
The hashtags#PrayforAmazonasand#AmazonRainforestwere trending earlier last week. Twitter users criticized the media for givingmore attention to the fire at Notre Dameand other news than to the rainforest fires. Social media users also called out billionaires for lack of donations. There was ...
we'll have to wait and see if the next NASA survey after the end of the fire season (after September) if there really was any real increase, but given that most of the current fires seem to be happening in already cleared agricultural land, not old forest, it's unlikely it'll be gr...
Over 75,000 fires have been recorded in the Amazon rainforest so far this year, more than double the 40,000 blazes recorded there in all of 2018, according to Brazil's National Institute for Space Research. The fires can be caused by natural phenomena, like lightning strikes, but are ...
Over the past 50 years 17% of the rainforest has been lost, some way from the 40% tipping-point proposed in 2007. But last year Mr Nobre and Thomas Lovejoy of George Mason University, after taking account of climate change and fire as well asdeforestation, revised the estimate of the ...
Hecht SB, Cockburn A (2010) The fate of the forest: developers, destroyers, and defenders of the Amazon. University of Chicago Press Hemming J (2019) People of the rainforest: the Villas Boas brothers, explorers and humanitarians of the Amazon. C. Hurst & Company, London ...
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Every fifth breath you take can be traced back to the Amazon, the South American rainforest that spans nine countries, generates 20% of the world’s oxygen, and is currently in flames. The global impact of the nearly 9,500 deforestation fires that have been burning for weeks—a sizable po...