European space agency records Amazon air pollution

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New satellite images show increase in air pollution in the Brazilian Amazon during period last month when fires raged in the region.

New satellite images show an increase in air pollution in the Brazilian Amazon while fires burned in the region last month.

The European Space Agency on Monday published maps that show more carbon monoxide and other pollutants in August than in the previous month, when there were fewer fires. The agency says fires are releasing carbon dioxide once stored in the Amazon forests back into the atmosphere, potentially having an impact on the global climate.

Burning continues despite a 60-day ban on land-clearing fires in the Amazon that was announced by President Jair Bolsonaro. Brazil's National Institute for Space Research says the number of fires in all of Brazil has surpassed 100,000 so far this year, up 45 percent compared to the same period in 2018.

 

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Lol smoke is air pollution. So what now you're gonna blame it on climate change?

The fires were set

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