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From: Wharf Rat6/25/2024 12:46:06 PM
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EXTREME WILDFIRES DOUBLED OVER PAST TWO DECADES

For the first time, researchers were able to plot a global trend for the most destructive types of fires responsible for major economic damage and loss to animal and human life. The study was published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution. Using satellite records, they studied nearly 3,000 wildfires of tremendous “radiative power” between 2003 to 2023 and established a 2.2-fold increase in their occurrence over that period. The intensity of the 20 most extreme blazes in each year had also more than doubled—a rate that “appears to be accelerating”.

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‘OUT OF CONTROL FIRES’ IN BRAZIL WETLANDS

Experts say the blazes are a result of a harsh drought and deliberate fires set to expand agricultural land into the forest that burn out of control. According to environmental satellite data from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 627,000 hectares of the Pantanal have already gone up in flames since the start of the year.

The Pantanal, a region slightly bigger than England, experienced its worst year for fires in 2020, when 30 percent of the wetlands were affected. So far this year, there are 33 percent more fires than seen over the same period in 2020.

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