Jingjing: Mark, have you been reading anything about the forest fires in the Amazon? 京晶:马克,最近你关注关于亚马逊森林大火的报道了吗? Jingjing Mark Mark: You mean the river? 马克:你是说亚马逊河? Jingjing: No, I mea...
In June 2020, researchers saw an average of 75 fires a day in the Amazon. Last August, during the peak of the massive forest fires that caused global outcry, there were about 1,000 fires detected per day. Aerial picture showing a fire in a piece of land in the Amazon rainforest, abou...
Barlow says, “The best fire fighting technique in the Amazon is to prevent them in the first place — by controlling deforestation and managing agricultural activities.” WUR’s Cathelijne Stoof agrees: “Fighting the fires is of course important now,” she says. “For the longe...
Fire is often used to clear out the land for farming or ranching. For that reason, the vast majority of the fires can be attributed to humans, Christian Poirier, program director of the nonprofit Amazon Watch, told CNN. Without providing evidence, Bolsonaro suggested the fires were set ...
according to a slightly more recent Brazilian survey the number of fires is greatly above average, but the NASA survey was related to area not counting individual fires, we'll have to wait and see if the next NASA survey after the end of the fire season (after September) if there really...
government incentivized forest clearing in the Amazon for beef production and ranchingDeforestation of the Amazon River basin has followed a pattern of cutting, burning, farming, and grazing. This process is then repeated on adjacent plots of land, steadily pushing back the borders of the Amazon ...
Scientists are on high alert that the Amazon is careening toward a destructive fire season. Parts of Brazil and its typically lush rainforest are parched by drought and loaded with fire-kindling fuel after a surge of deforestation in 2020. ...
“The vast majority of these fires are human-lit,” said Christian Poirier, the program director of non-profit organization Amazon Watch. He added that even during dry seasons, the Amazon – a humid rainforest – doesn’t catch on fire easily, unlike the dry bushland in California or Austr...
Related articleWildfires rage in the Amazon “The vast majority of these fires are human-lit,” said Poirier, who explained that even during dry seasons, the rainforest cannot catch fire easily, unlike, say, the dry bushlands of California or Australia. ...
The Amazon is on fire: Wildfires continued to burn at a record rate in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. The cause: Environmental organizations and researchers say the wildfires were set by cattle ranchers and loggers who want to clear and utilize the land, emboldened by the country’s pro-busine...