Rains Are Scarce in the Amazon. Instead, Megafires Are Raging.. Firefighters have struggled to contain enormous blazes that have sent choking smoke into cities across South America.
by Wagamaga
Rains Are Scarce in the Amazon. Instead, Megafires Are Raging.. Firefighters have struggled to contain enormous blazes that have sent choking smoke into cities across South America.
by Wagamaga
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By this time of the year, rain should be drenching large swaths of the Amazon rainforest. Instead, a punishing drought has kept the rains at bay, creating dry conditions for fires that have engulfed hundreds of square miles of the rainforest that do not usually burn.
The fires have turned the end of the dry season in the northern part of the giant rainforest into a crisis. Firefighters have struggled to contain enormous blazes that have sent choking smoke into cities across South America.
A record number of fires so far this year in the Amazon has also raised questions about what may be in store for the world’s biggest tropical rainforest when the dry season starts in June in the far larger southern part of the jungle.
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