A firefighter gives water to a tropical bird rescued from a wildfire in the Santa Cruz Province of Bolivia, August 22, 2019. Smoke rises from the trees Ueslei Marcelino / REUTERS Smoke billows during a fire in an area of the Amazon rainforest near Porto Velho, Rondonia State, Brazil, on ...
WILDFIRE preventionMODIS (Spectroradiometer)AEROSOLSEMISSIONS (Air pollution)SMOKE plumesRADIATIVE forcingAn extreme biomass burning event occurred in the Amazonian rainforest from July through September 2019 due to the extensive wildfires used to clear the land, which allowed for more significa...
The Global SuperTanker, a Boeing 747 retrofitted to haul up to 20,000 gallons of water and fire retardant, is fighting fires in the Amazon Rainforest.
NBC’s Kerry Sanders takes a trip deep into the Amazon, a rainforest under threat by massive fires and disappearing before our eyes. Destruction in the jungles, often referred to as the lungs of the planet, have global effects that extend to the U.S.Sept. 18, 2019 ...
In this photo released by Brazil Ministry of Defense, a C-130 Hercules aircraft dumps water to fight fires burning in the Amazon rainforest, in Brazil, Saturday, Aug, 24, 2019. Backed by military aircraft, Brazilian troops on Saturday were deploying in the Amazon to fight fires that have ...
12:45:17, August 24, 2019 The Amazon is burning because the world eats so much meat From CNN's Eliza Mackintosh While the wildfires raging in the Amazon rainforest may constitute an “international crisis,” they are hardly an accident. The vast majority of the fires have been set ...
Topographic and variables explain local fire incidences in many parts of the Amazon rainforest [137]. Overall, this study has provided information on the spatial and temporal patterns, as well as the causes, of fire dynamics in the Bolivian Amazon, Chiquitano SDTF and Beni Savanna. It has ...
Illegal logging, expansion of agricultural areas for soybean cultivation, and an increase in wildfire outbreaks are all among the leading causes of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Politics, however, has also played an important role. For example, the authorized budget for Brazil’s Ministry ...
Smoke from vegetation fires affects air quality, atmospheric cycling, and the climate in the Amazon rain forest. A major unknown has remained the quantity of long-range transported smoke from Africa in relation to local and regional fire emissions. Here we quantify the abundance, seasonality, and...
根据文章第一段Major causes of record fires sweeping across the Amazon rainforest this month include the dry season and human activities,according to research institutions and media reports.据研究机构和媒体报道,本月亚马逊雨林发生创纪录火灾的主要...