Brazil’s Amazon rainforest has seen a record number of fires this year. In August, this burning caused a thick layer of smoke to descend across São Paulo more than 1,700 miles away. INPE, the Brazilian Space Agency (inpe.br), detected more than 72,000 forest fires between January and August in 2019, the highest number since records began in 2013. More than 9,500 rainforest fires were observed burning in one week from August 15th alone, mostly in the Amazon region. In comparison, there were fewer than 40,000 in the whole of 2018. Stats like these indicate just how much trouble the Amazon is in. And there’s so much more than meets the eye.
Do we know how these fires started for certain?
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