how big is the amazon rainforest after the fire?
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Most of the fires burning today match up with spots where trees were felled earlier in the year, says Alencar. Through July 2019 over 7,200 square miles of the Brazilian rainforest has burned—an aggregated area nearly the size of New Jersey.
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Wildfire in the Amazon rainforest, near Abuna, in the Brazilian state of Rondonia on Aug. 24, 2019.
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As of 9 March 2020, the fires burnt an estimated 18.6 million hectares (46 million acres; 186,000 square kilometres; 72,000 square miles), destroyed over 5,900 buildings (including 2,779 homes) and killed at least 34 people.
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Currently, there are more than 165,000 fires burning in the rainforest. According to Brazil's space research centre, INPE, which has been recording wildfires since 2013, more than 75,000 of those fires are burning in Brazil. That's more than an 80 per cent increase over the same period of 2018, the agency told Reuters.
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Australia fires burn through 15 million acres of land, kill at least 25 peopleThe fires in Australia's outback are even larger than the recent massive wildfires in California and the Amazon Rainforest, and shows how the effects of climate change reach all corners of the globe.
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The Amazon did not evolve to burn, but for centuries, fire has been used to clear space in the rainforest for agricultural crops, from soybeans to palm to cattle. Deforestation often leads to fire.
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Yes, the Amazon on fire. ... So far this year, more than 72,000 forest fires have started (or been set by cattle ranchers) in Brazil's rain forest. That's an 80% increase over the same period last year. But the amount of CO2 emitted from the fires is lower than in 2010 and significantly lower than in the early 2000s.
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Rainforest of the Congo Basin share many characteristics with the Amazon rainforest and other tropical forests worldwide: high diversity, dense vegetation, and multiple layers of forest structure. The forest canopy is usually about 30 meters tall, with emergent trees such as the great maobi reaching up to 50-60 meters.
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But one month on, the fires are still burning. ... Between January and the end of July, data from the Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE) shows almost 16,000 active fire hot spots had been detected within the Amazon biome. Just one month later, that figure had almost tripled to more than 46,000 fires.
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The fires in the Amazon are the result of seasonal burning that farmers do every year. ... The Amazon rainforest is burning at a record rate. Brazil has seen more than 74,000 fires this year ⁠— nearly double 2018's total of about 40,000 fires. About 10,000 new fires started in the last week alone.
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But the Amazon rainforest, which remains drenched for much of the year, does not burn naturally. Instead, the fires are ignited by people. Farmers use slash-and-burn tactics to clear land for farming and pasture, though it's illegal in Brazil this time of year due to fire risk.
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There are still Amazon fires - though not as many Forest fires do happen in the Amazon during the dry season between July and October. They can be caused by naturally occurring events, like lightning strikes, but this year most are thought to have been started by farmers and loggers clearing land for crops or grazing.
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More than 20 percent of the Amazon rainforest is already gone, and much more is severely threatened as the destruction continues. It is estimated that the Amazon alone is vanishing at a rate of 20,000 square miles a year. If nothing is done to curb this trend, the entire Amazon could well be gone within fifty years.
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There are still Amazon fires - though not as many When the burning of the Amazon was at its peak in August, there were thousands of individual fires, almost three times as many that month - 30,901 - compared with the same period last year.
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Scientists and environmentalists say the reason the Amazon is on fire is because farmers are deliberately starting blazes in their efforts to clear land for crops or livestock. One researcher estimated that humans start 99% of all Amazon rainforest fires. Such fires are a major cause of deforestation in the Amazon.
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The 2019 Amazon rainforest wildfires season saw a year-to-year surge in fires occurring in the Amazon rainforest and Amazon biome within Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Peru during that year's Amazonian tropical dry season.