Brazil faced a dramatic increase in wildfires in February, with the area of burned land skyrocketing by 410% to 950,300 hectares from the previous year. This surge in fire incidents was detailed in a report by the Fire Monitor, part of the MapBiomas Fire network, and coordinated by the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM). The […]
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