BRASILIA (REUTERS) - Fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest worsened in the first week of September and are increasingly spreading into areas of untouched forest, satellite data showed as of Wednesday (Sept 9), after the number of fires likely reached a 10-year high in August.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BRASILIA - Fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest worsened in the first week of September and are increasingly spreading into areas of untouched forest, satellite data showed as of Wednesday , after the number of fires likely reached a 10-year high in August.
A pressing concern is that 27 per cent of the major fires so far in September have been in virgin forest, rather than in recently deforested areas or farmland where blazes are more contained, according to an analysis of satellite images by US-based non-profit Amazon Conservation, reviewed exclusively by Reuters."It's much more of this uncontrolled fire scenario that's just being unleashed," said Matt Finer, who leads the non-profit's fire tracking project.
Considering all types of fires, September has already averaged 53 major blazes per day in the first week, up from 18 a day in August, according to Amazon Conservation.
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