Top 9 amazon fires in 2023

Author: www.greenpeace.org

Date Submitted: 05/10/2021 10:12 PM

Average star voting: 3 ⭐ ( 30815 reviews)

Summary: The Amazon rainforest is shrinking. The fires in the Amazon are growing. And the impacts of this destruction are a risk to the entire planet.

Match with the search results: On 22 August, 3,358 fires were detected in the Brazilian Amazon, according to the Brazilian space agency, INPE. This was the highest number ……. read more

Author: www.reuters.com

Date Submitted: 06/23/2022 03:57 PM

Average star voting: 3 ⭐ ( 65749 reviews)

Summary: Brazil vowed last year to halt deforestation by 2030, yet the number of fires burning in the country’s Amazon rainforest hit a 15-year high in June. Burning season began last month and the rate of forest clearing remains high.

Match with the search results: Unlike wildfires in Europe or the United States, fires do not occur naturally in the humid, tropical Amazon rainforest. Instead, farmers cut ……. read more

Author: news.mongabay.com

Date Submitted: 06/20/2022 06:31 AM

Average star voting: 5 ⭐ ( 21830 reviews)

Summary: Environmental science and conservation news

Match with the search results: Nearly 1,000 major fires burned in the Amazon during its 2022 fire season, according to the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP)….. read more

Author: fee.org

Date Submitted: 11/22/2019 10:20 AM

Average star voting: 3 ⭐ ( 49854 reviews)

Summary: The number of fires in Brazil this year is about the same as 2016 and less than 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010, and 2012. Data from the National Institute for Space Research in Brazil, which works with NASA, shows that 2019 is not out of line.

Match with the search results: While the number of fires in 2019 is indeed 80 percent higher than in 2018—that number you have probably seen reported wildly—it’s just 7 ……. read more

Author: www.smithsonianmag.com

Date Submitted: 05/11/2022 04:50 AM

Average star voting: 5 ⭐ ( 53483 reviews)

Summary: Rapid deforestation has made the rainforest more vulnerable to flames, experts say

Match with the search results: Refine by Amazon Fire product line…. read more

Author: www.worldwildlife.org

Date Submitted: 09/13/2022 07:58 PM

Average star voting: 3 ⭐ ( 53333 reviews)

Summary: WWF’s Emergency Fund for Amazon Fires
For the Response and Recovery of Earth’s Largest Rain forest

Match with the search results: In August, 33,116 fires burned through the Brazilian Amazon, according to satellite data. That’s a higher number of fires than any month has ……. read more

Author: onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Date Submitted: 08/09/2019 09:42 PM

Average star voting: 5 ⭐ ( 90577 reviews)

Summary: According to their new study published today in Nature, Amazonian species are suffering — but there is still time to protect them.

Match with the search results: Overhead image from the fires in the Brazilian Amazon, 2019. © Michael Dantas / WWF-Brazil ……. read more

Author: www.conservation.org

Date Submitted: 02/07/2021 07:39 PM

Average star voting: 5 ⭐ ( 88657 reviews)

Summary: The Amazon is burning. We’re all outraged. But we’ve been overwhelmed by the incredible response. Here are our FAQs.

Match with the search results: The intensification of agricultural fires and deforestation aggravated the burning of Amazonian ecosystems in 2020. 1 INTRODUCTION. Fire is ……. read more

Author: www.wwf.org.uk

Date Submitted: 08/10/2022 11:42 AM

Average star voting: 4 ⭐ ( 21314 reviews)

Summary: MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — More fires burned in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest this August than in any month in nearly five years, thanks to a surge in illegal deforestation. Satellite sensors detected 33,116 fires according to Brazil’s national space institute.

Match with the search results: A: Fires are not a natural part of the Amazon ecosystem. They are often set by people to expand soy farms or rangelands for cattle. If enough ……. read more