The Amazon has had its worst forest fires in two decades. More than 62,000 square kilometres have been burned this year already – an area of land bigger than Sri Lanka or Costa Rica.
Most fires in the Amazon are illegally started by humans, according to scientists, the Federal Police, and the government: loggers and miners looking to exploit land in the Amazon, or farmers turning it into pasture.
The world relies on the Amazon to absorb much of its carbon.
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