Brazil saw record forest fires from January to April

Brazil saw record forest fires from January to April

Terra Daily

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Rio De Janeiro (AFP) May 2, 2024

Brazil saw a record 17,182 forest fires from January to April this year, according to satellite images from the Brazilian Institute of Space Research (INPE) released Thursday, more than half of them in the Amazon region. The figure represented an 81 percent increase from the same period last year, and was the most forest fires recorded for this period in Brazil since data collection started

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