are the amazon fires still burning?
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The Amazon Is Still on Fire. Latin America is one of the global regions most vulnerable to climate change, and increased forest fires are just one symptom. ... The Amazon rainforest helps regulate global climate, yet deforestation rates in the nine countries that house the forest are increasing.
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Victoria, where fires have burned 1.2 million hectares, extended a "state of disaster" for the worst-hit areas from 2 to 11 January. Some blazes are still burning in the state and there are emergency warnings are in place. ... Three people - including one firefighter - have died as a result of the fires.
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Now, with fewer dramatic images of out of control fires appearing on the Internet, the Amazon rainforest has again dropped out of the world's headlines. But what really matters for the long-term survival of the biome are not the wildfires themselves, but the extent to which people are cutting down trees.
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While the fires have somewhat faded from the news cycle, deforestation rates continue to go up, and the very real threat towards Indigenous peoples and the environment continues, particularly in Brazil. ... However, Indigenous land and protected territories absorbed more carbon than areas without protection.
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But, according to the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (Ipam) about half the forests, wetlands, woods and grasslands there have already been lost - much of it to make way for soy bean farming. Although the Brazilian Amazon is under threat, the vast majority of it remains intact.
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The Amazon rainforest, the vessel holding a massive amount of the world's oxygen, is burning at a rate scientists have never seen before. The National Institute for Space Research (INPE) has recorded more than 74,000 fires so far this year – an 84 per cent increase on the same period in 2018.
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The culprits? Humans. Since 1970, almost 310,000 square kilometres of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest has been lost due to human activity. The reduction has slowed in recent years as a result of positive action by South American governments, but it remains a problem.
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Wildfire in the Amazon rainforest, near Abuna, in the Brazilian state of Rondonia on Aug. 24, 2019.
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When the burning of the Amazon was at its peak in August, there were thousands of individual fires, almost three times as many that month - 30,901 - compared with the same period last year. What caused this? Forest fires do happen in the Amazon during the dry season between July and October.
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Fires are burning in other parts of the Amazon as well as other forest ecosystems in the region, including Bolivia, Paraguay and Peru. But most of the international attention has been focused on Brazil, which contains about 60 percent of the Amazon rainforest.
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Today, Centralia still burns as one of 38 known active mining fires in the Pennsylvania. According to the state's Department of Environmental Protection, the fire could burn for another century if left uncontrolled.
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One year has passed since the world was shocked by the images of the fires blazing across the Amazon in Brazil. But since then, the forest hasn't stopped burning —and 2020 could be even more devastating for the rainforest and the Indigenous Peoples who call it home.
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Yes, the Amazon on fire. ... So far this year, more than 72,000 forest fires have started (or been set by cattle ranchers) in Brazil's rain forest. That's an 80% increase over the same period last year. But the amount of CO2 emitted from the fires is lower than in 2010 and significantly lower than in the early 2000s.
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Here's everything you need to know: What's happening? Tens of thousands of fires are burning across the vast Amazon basin, consuming 4.6 million acres of irreplaceable rain forest since the beginning of the year.
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About 76,000 fires were burning across the Brazilian Amazon at last official count, an increase of over 80 percent over the same time period last year, according to data from Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE). ... “The majority of the fires we're seeing now are because of deforestation,” she says.
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Being a rainforest, the Amazon isn't supposed to burn out of control, unlike California's drier landscape, which is built to burn and burn explosively.
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More than 20 percent of the Amazon rainforest is already gone, and much more is severely threatened as the destruction continues. It is estimated that the Amazon alone is vanishing at a rate of 20,000 square miles a year. If nothing is done to curb this trend, the entire Amazon could well be gone within fifty years.