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Last week, the sky over São Paulo — Brazil's largest city — went dark from the smoke of ongoing fires burning in the Amazon rainforest. More than 40,000 fires have been reported so far this year.
Most of the fires are believed to have been started by farmers burning previously cleared agricultural areas. This happens every year, but the number of fires has spiked significantly in 2019 as deforestation efforts expanded under Brazil's new president, Jair Bolsonaro. The Amazon may physically cover only a handful of countries, but its impact is felt by the whole world. Though a popular claim about its role in creating oxygen is untrue, the rainforest is still seen as enormously important in supporting a healthy environment and fighting climate change.
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