RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Between January and August of this year, 700,000 hectares (around 2,700 square miles) of the biome were destroyed by fires. This number is the same as the total in 2013 and 2015, and higher than the total in 2014 and 2018, according to the UFRJ lab.
An act of destruction is repeated around the Transpantaneira in the Pantanal in Mato Grosso. After the 2020 fire that left the largest burned area in history, the region is once again being ravaged by uncontrolled flames, forcing farmers and firefighters to work together to try to prevent . . .
To read the full NEWS and much more, Subscribe to our Premium Membership Plan. Already Subscribed? Login Here