Brazil reports fires burning in the Amazon Rainforest at unprecedented rate on this day in 2019. White House tours canceled ...

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Tens of thousands of fires swept through the Brazilian Amazon during the recently concluded forest fire season, with the environmental organization WWF reporting on Monday that the blazes ...

The vast Amazon rainforest bore the brunt of the devastation, accounting for approximately 17.9 million hectares of the total burned area, which is 58% of the overall destruction.

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The Amazon is the world's largest rainforest. It harbors immense biodiversity and plays a crucial role in the global climate ...

Forest fires have consumed tens of millions of hectares in the Amazon basin this year, due to global warming, an extreme two-year drought, and illegal burning of forests and pastures.

Another 25%, however, were generated in forest areas. It was a surprise, according to experts, since rainforest moisture usually protects the rainforest from fire.

Seventeen percent of the Amazonian rainforest has been felled in the last 50 years, so it follows that, given the 10-20 percent stat cited above, it could be wholly destroyed in the next 50.

It’s a difference that impacts not just the Amazon Rainforest fire, but also climate change in the long run, according to Contreras. One sign read: “Climate change will force over 100 million ...