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...
A month from now, the skies over parts of Brazil will fill with smoke. It's fire season in the Amazon, and the planet's largest rain forest is heading for another record burn. Every year, illegal loggers use bulldozers and chainsaws to rip through huge swaths of jungle, land that's...
Over the studied period, the Legal Amazon region recorded a staggering 1,438,322 wildfires, with 1,218,606 (85%) occurring during August–December, known as the forest fire season. During the forest fire season, a substantial portion (566,707) of the total 1,532,228 hospital admissions ...
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 longer...
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 b...
With Brazil entering the tail end of the fire season in the Amazon rainforest, the region appears to have got off more lightly than many had feared. In September, 16,742 forest fires were recorded in the Brazilian Amazon, according to the National Institute of Space Research, a government ...
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...
Rainforest on fire ADRIANO MACHADO / REUTERS A fire burning during the dry season in Brasilia, Brazil, on August 21, 2019. Deforestation has been accelerating across the Amazon, threatening environmental stability in the region and beyond.
The fires that devastated the Amazon in the summer of 2019 were no accident. Most weredeliberately setto clear land in the rainforest for agricultural purposes. But while Americans and Europeans were outraged byimages of the firesin the news and on social media, there's evidence that developme...
and fragmentation is a large contributor to degradation-associated carbon emissions64. Given the drier and warmer future projected for the Central and Eastern regions of the Amazon, and extended dry-season length65, our findings suggest that fragmentation will exacerbate the negative effects of high ...