Brazil reports more Amazon fires so far this year
Brazil reports more Amazon fires so far this year than all of 2021.
Brasilia, The Gulf Observer: The number of forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon so far this year has surpassed that for all of 2021, according to official figures released Monday that triggered new alarm for the world’s biggest rainforest.
This has been a worrying year for the Amazon, a key buffer against global warming.
Satellite monitoring has detected 75,592 fires from January 1 to September 18, already higher than the 75,090 detected for all of last year, according to the Brazilian space agency, INPE.
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon last month was nearly double the figure from August 2021, at 1,661 square kilometers.
