Fires in Brazil's Amazon jump in June, stoking fears for dry season

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The number of fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest rose 20% in June to a 13-year-high for the month.

Health experts also fear the smoke that often blankets the region during the dry season, causing respiratory problems, could cause complications for COVID-19 patients.

June 2020 averaged roughly 75 fires per day in the Amazon, compared with an average of nearly 1,000 blazes a day when fires peaked in August 2019. Deforestation is up 34% in the first five months of the year, from a year ago, preliminary INPE data shows. [nL1N2DP0QU] The Amazon Environmental Research Institute , a Brazilian non-governmental organization, predicts that at the current pace of deforestation, there will be around 9,000 square kilometers of Amazon by the end of July that have been cut down but not burned since the beginning of 2019, when Bolsonaro assumed office.

 

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