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2019 Amazon rainforest wildfires

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2019 Brazil wildfires
VIIRS scan o the Amazon basin on 20 August 2019, depictin several wildfires an the smeuk produced
LocationBrazil
Stateestics
Tot fires>40,000[1]
Date(s)Januar — October 2019
Birned aurie906,000 hectare (2,240,000 acre; 9,060 km2; 3,500 sq mi)[2]
CauseSlash-an-birn approach tae deforest laund for agricultur an effects o climate chynge an global wairmin due tae unuisually langer dry sauson an abuin average temperaturs aroond warldwide ootthrou 2019
Fatalities2[3]
Map
Map o the Amazon rainforest ecoregions as delineatit bi the WWF in white an the Amazon drainage basin in blue.
Map o the Amazon rainforest ecoregions as delineatit bi the WWF in white an the Amazon drainage basin in blue.

The 2019 Brazil wildfires war brocht tae the attention o the scienteefic an internaitional commonty in Julie an August 2019 efter the Naitional Institute for Space Resairch (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, INPE) released stateestics based on satellite observations documentin at least 75,336 wildfires birnin in the kintra frae Januar tae 23 August 2019, wi mair nor 40,000 within the Amazon rainforest, the heichest nummer syne data collection begoud in 2013.[4][5][6][7]

References

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  1. "Situação atual - Programa Queimadas - INPE". queimadas.dgi.inpe.br. Archived frae the original on 20 Juin 2022. Retrieved 27 Januar 2020.
  2. "Brazil's Bolsonaro says he will accept aid to fight Amazon fires". CBS News. 27 August 2019. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
  3. Moreira, Rinaldo; Valley, Jamari (15 August 2019). "Casal morre abraçado ao tentar fugir de queimada em RO" [Couple die hugged while trying to escape burnt out RO]. G1 (in Portuguese). Archived frae the original on 15 August 2019. Retrieved 22 August 2019. Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (help)
  4. Team, The Visual and Data Journalism (23 August 2019). "Amazon fires: How bad have they got?" (in Inglis). Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  5. "'Record number of fires' in Brazilian rainforest". BBC News Online. BBC Online. BBC. 21 August 2019. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
  6. Rodriguez, Jeremiah (22 August 2019). "As the Amazon burns, Brazil's president draws global outrage". CTV News. Retrieved 22 August 2019.
  7. Andreoni, Manuela; Hauser, Christine (21 August 2019). "Fires in Amazon Rain Forest Have Surged This Year". The New York Times. Rio de Janeiro. Retrieved 21 August 2019.