Amazon rainforest fires 2022: Facts, causes, and climate impacts
2022年9月5日 — Just in the month of August 2022, there were 33,116 illegal fire hotspots registered in the Amazon, the highest level in 12 years. The world must do more than watch in horror as the world’s largest intact forest is being pushed toward a climate tipping point.
2024 Amazon Fires - Rainforest Foundation US
The first eight months of 2024 saw the highest number of Amazon fires since 2005. A staggering 13.4 million acres of Brazil's Amazon have burned through August, an area larger than Costa Rica
Amazon On Fire: 2024 Sees Highest Number of Fires in 20 Years
2024年8月1日 — In the first seven months of 2024, the Brazilian Amazon recorded the highest number of fires in the last 20 years. Although deforestation in the region decreased by 50% in 2023 compared to 2022, burned areas increased by 36%.
Megafires are spreading in the Amazon — and they are here to stay
2024年2月22日 — Usually accidental, forest fires in Amazonia are caused by uncontrolled small fires such as crop burning, livestock management (to clear pasture) or clear-cutting — this, which is almost always illegal, resulting from razing trees for new pastureland, monoculture farming or real estate speculation.
South America's Forest Fires, Explained | World Resources ...
2024年9月19日 — Peru, which houses the second-largest area of Amazon rainforest in South America after Brazil, has seen more than 450 fire alerts so far in 2024 — more than double the average at this stage of the year. About 61% of the country’s fires are burning in primary forests.
'Out of control' fires ravage the Amazon region - ABC News
2024年9月10日 — LONDON -- Wildfires in the Amazon are choking swaths of Brazil, Bolivia and Ecuador with smoke, leading to evacuations, school closures, canceled flights and a dire threat to plant and animal life in the region in what officials say is thought to be the worst fires in 20 years.
Amazon Fires Are Soaring Again – but Forest Loss Is Down ...
2024年9月12日 — The Amazon rainforest is facing its most devastating fires in 20 years, threatening not only the forests and the climate, but the lives and livelihoods of Indigenous communities. HOW YOU CAN HELP TAKE ACTION