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☆ Fires in Brazil’s Pantanal wetland break June record
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-14 | by ( Aditi Sangal | Mia Alberti | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Brazil’s Pantanal, the largest tropical wetland on earth, is ablaze, with fires in June breaking historical records for that month. Brazil’s National Institute of Space Research (INPE) has detected 733 fires in the Pantanal biome so far this month, with the previous record for fires in Pantanal for June being 435 registered in 2005. A view of a burnt monkey amongst the burnt vegetation in the Pantanal, the world's largest wetland, in Corumba, Mato Grosso do Sul state, Brazil, June 11, 2024. This seasonal flooding makes the Pantanal a unique biome where large swaths of land regularly turn from terrestrial into aquatic habitats and back again. In 2020, the fires destroyed unique habitats and wrecked the livelihoods of many of the Pantanal’s diverse indigenous communities.

Persons: Brazil’s Pantanal, Cynthia Santos, Ueslei Marcelino, ”, Andre Luiz Siqueira, It’s, ECOA, –, Ivana Kottasová, Henrik Pettersson, Krystina Organizations: Reuters, Brazil’s National Institute of Space Research, National Meteorological Institute, Wildlife Foundation, WWF Brazil, Fund, Nature, World Wildlife Fund, CNN Locations: Pantanal, Mato Grosso, Sul, Brazil, Corumba, Wetlands, Canada, South America, Brazilian

☆ Venezuela battles record wildfires worsened by Amazon drought
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-02 | by ( Billy Stockwell | Story Reuters | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Reuters —Venezuela is battling a record number of wildfires, according to data released on Monday, as a climate change-driven drought plagues the Amazon rainforest region. An aerial view shows a burned forest after a forest fire in Henri Pittier National Park on March 30. Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/ReutersA Bolivarian National Police helicopter flies over during a wildfire in the Henri Pittier National Park on March 29. The fires are blanketing with smoke Guayana City, Venezuela’s largest urban center in the Amazon, according to a Reuters witness. In Venezuela, Lozada, firefighters and other experts said the government response was lacking.

Persons: Manoela Machado, ” Machado, “, ”, Carlos Carruido Perez, Henri Pittier, Leonardo Fernandez Viloria, Henri, Jose Rafael Lozada, Michael Coe, Lozada, Juan Carlos Hernandez, ” Lozada, Oxford’s Machado, William Lopez Organizations: Reuters —, Satellites, University of Oxford, Henri, Reuters, Bolivarian National Police, NASA, Universidad de Los, Research, AFP, Getty, “ Firefighters Locations: Reuters — Venezuela, Venezuela, South America, Pacific, Brazil’s, Brazil, Henri, Uverito, Manhattan, Universidad de Los Andes, Merida, Brazil’s Roraima, Roraima, Naguanagua, Carabobo State

☆ Fires in Brazil's Pantanal wetland surge to November record on lack of rain
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] An aerial view shows burnt trees near a river in The Pantanal, the world's largest wetland, in Pocone, Mato Grosso state, Brazil, August 28, 2020. The 2,387 fires recorded by Inpe in early November is already more than double October's figure and more than half of the total fires seen this year so far. Fires have more than tripled in the Pantanal compared with 2022, which was mild compared with the two previous years. Weather experts point to the El Nino phenomenon, aggravated by climate change, as being behind the sharp increase in fires. "There was sporadic rainfall at the end of October, but two or three days after it stopped, the fires came back," he added.

Persons: Amanda Perobelli, Inpe, El, Vinicius Silgueiro, Silgueiro, Lisandra Paraguassu, Gerry Doyle Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Centro de Vida Institute, El Nino, Thomson Locations: Pocone, Mato Grosso, Brazil, Rights BRASILIA, Brazil's Pantanal

☆ Amazon deforestation falls more than 20% to its lowest levels in 5 years
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Story Reuters | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

The Amazon jungle is the world’s largest rainforest and its protection is seen as vital to curbing climate change. “It’s an impressive result and seals Brazil’s return to the climate agenda,” said Marcio Astrini, head of advocacy group Climate Observatory. Still, this year’s deforestation rate remains nearly twice that of the all-time low in forest destruction in 2012 and far from Lula’s pledge to reach zero deforestation by 2030. Under the right-wing former president, destruction at the hands of ranchers, land speculators and miners surged to a 15 year high. The official annual period is measured from August to July as there is less cloud cover in the middle of the year to obscure deforestation on satellite images.

Persons: Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Jair Bolsonaro, Bolsonaro, ”, Marcio Astrini, Lula Organizations: CNN

A general view shows the water conditions in the Piraiba river before a summit of Amazon rainforest nations, in Belem, Para state, Brazil August 5, 2023. The Amazon jungle is the world's largest rainforest and its protection is seen as vital to curbing climate change. "It's an impressive result and seals Brazil's return to the climate agenda," said Marcio Astrini, head of advocacy group Climate Observatory. Under the right-wing former president, destruction at the hands of ranchers, land speculators and miners surged to a 15 year high. The official annual period is measured from August to July as there is less cloud cover in the middle of the year to obscure deforestation on satellite images.

Persons: Ueslei Marcelino, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Jair Bolsonaro, Bolsonaro, Marcio Astrini, Lula, Peter Frontini, Jake Spring, Kylie Madry, David Gregorio Our Organizations: REUTERS, SAO PAULO, Thomson Locations: Belem , Para, Brazil

☆ Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon falls 57% in September
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsCompanies Amazon Fund II LP FollowSAO PAULO, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest fell 56.8% in September compared to a year earlier, government data showed on Friday, while the region is struggling with a historic drought. In September, Brazil's Environment Minister Marina Silva announced at the United Nations Summit in New York more ambitious climate targets for the country. Deforestation and fires usually spike in the Amazon in August and September, when the weather turns drier. Fires in the region last month fell 36%, improving from the worst September in more than a decade in 2022. Last month, Switzerland and the United States donated $8.4 million to Brazil's Amazon Fund to help preserve the world's largest tropical rainforest.

Persons: Ueslei Marcelino, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's, Jair, Marina Silva, Peter Frontini, Diane Craft Organizations: REUTERS, Amazon Fund, SAO PAULO, Brazil's, United Nations Summit, Thomson Locations: Seca, Uruara, Para State, Brazil, New York, Switzerland, United States

☆ Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon falls 66% in August
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-05 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

In the first eight months of the year, INPE's figures showed, deforestation has fallen a cumulative 48% from the same period of 2022. Brazil last month hosted a major rainforest summit, where eight Amazon nations agreed to a list of unified environmental policies and measures to bolster regional cooperation but failed to agree on a common goal for ending deforestation. "We are experiencing a new moment, with more assertive policies and greater political will in favor of the Amazon," WWF-Brasil's director, Mariana Napolitano, said. But more is still needed, including traceability and transparency in the trade of livestock, gold and other commodities, she added. Reporting by Gabriel Araujo and Peter Frontini; editing by Jonathan Oatis and Sandra MalerOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Bruno Kelly, Marina Silva, INPE, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Jair Bolsonaro, Lula, Bolsonaro, Mariana Napolitano, Gabriel Araujo, Peter Frontini, Jonathan Oatis, Sandra Maler Organizations: REUTERS, Environment Ministry, Thomson Locations: Uruara, Para, Brazil

☆ Amazon forest carbon emissions skyrocketed under Bolsonaro, study shows
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/3] An aerial view shows trees as the sun rises at the Amazon rainforest in Manaus, Amazonas State, Brazil October 26, 2022. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsAug 23 (Reuters) - Brazilian space research center INPE said on Wednesday that carbon emissions in the Amazon forest soared in 2019 and 2020 compared to the previous decade due to poor enforcement of environmental protection policies. The forest's carbon emissions amounted to 0.44 billion metric tons in 2019 and 0.52 billion metric tons in 2020, compared to an annual average of 0.24 billion metric tons from 2010-2018, according to the INPE study published in Nature magazine. The study attributed the rise in a large part to an increase in deforestation, researcher and leader of the study Luciana Gatti said. The study relied on carbon dioxide samples collected by hundreds of research flights over the region between 2010 and 2020.

Persons: Bruno Kelly, INPE, Luciana Gatti, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Jair Bolsonaro, Fernando Cardoso, Carolina Pulice, Chris Reese Organizations: REUTERS, Nature, Thomson Locations: Manaus, Amazonas State, Brazil

Nearly 500 square kilometers (193 square miles) of rainforest were cleared in July, a significant fall from the 1,487 square kilometers (574 square miles) cleared last July. There has been a sharp decline in deforestation since Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was inaugurated as president in January. Brazil’s environment minister, Marina Silva, said government policies, including increasing surveillance and fining perpetrators, has played a big role in bringing rates of deforestation down. The reduced rate of deforestation is positive news at a time when the Amazon remains critically vulnerable. In 2022 an area of global tropical forest the size of Switzerland was lost as forest destruction rose by 10% compared to the previous year, according to a recent report from the World Resources Institute’s (WRI) Global Forest Watch.

Persons: Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Lula, Jair, Marina Silva, ” Silva, Moraes Almeida, Nelson Almedia Organizations: CNN, Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research, Getty, Resources, Watch Locations: Brazilian, Para, Brazil, AFP, Belem, Switzerland

☆ NASA chief offers Brazil satellite imaging to help stop Amazon deforestation
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson attends a news conference, after meeting with Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (not pictured), at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil July 24, 2023. REUTERS/Adriano MachadoBRASILIA, July 25 (Reuters) - NASA Administrator Bill Nelson visited Brazilian space research center INPE on Wednesday and proposed extending satellite partnerships with the United States to help monitor and prevent destruction of the Amazon rainforest. Nelson said NASA will have a satellite in January that can even render images of what is happening below the forest canopy. "I thanked the president for his continuous effort to save the Amazon rainforest," he told reporters after the meeting. Earlier on Tuesday, Nelson visited Brazilian plane maker Embraer (EMBR3.SA) in Sao Jose dos Campos and toured the production line for its narrow-body commercial E-Jets.

Persons: Bill Nelson, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Adriano Machado BRASILIA, Nelson, Sao Jose dos Campos, Luciana Santos, Anthony Boadle, Brad Haynes, Bill Berkrot Organizations: REUTERS, NASA, INPE, Embraer, EMBR3, Jets, Thomson Locations: Brasilia, Brazil, United States, India, Sao Jose, INPE, China, U.S, Brazilian, American, Argentina, Colombia

SAO PAULO, July 6 (Reuters) - Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon fell 34% in the first half of 2023, preliminary government data showed on Thursday, hitting its lowest level in four years as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva institutes tougher environmental policies. But that's an area more than three times the size of New York City, underscoring the challenge Lula faces to eliminate deforestation entirely. "It's very positive, but we continue to have very high levels of deforestation," said Daniel Silva, an analyst at nonprofit WWF-Brasil. An aerial view shows a deforested area during an operation to combat deforestation near Uruara, Para State, Brazil January 21, 2023. In June alone, Inpe satellite data showed deforestation totaled 663 sq km, down 41% from the same month a year ago.

Persons: Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Inpe, Lula, Daniel Silva, Jair Bolsonaro, Ueslei Marcelino, Marina Silva, Silva, Joao Paulo Capobianco, Carolina Pulice, Jake Spring, Gabriel Araujo, Sandra Maler Organizations: SAO PAULO, WWF, Brasil, REUTERS, Environment Ministry, Thomson Locations: New York City, Uruara, Para State, Brazil

☆ Replanting the Amazon could slow global warming. Here’s why it’s hard
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +24 min

Milton da Costa Junior nosed his pickup through a remote stretch of the western Brazilian Amazon to check on his babies. Local authorities said the September 2021 incident, which Da Costa outlined in a police report that was reviewed by Reuters, is being investigated. Out of dozens of reforestation initiatives in the country, Rioterra and The Black Jaguar Foundation, a Brazilian-European group, are among the largest. Illegal invaders destroy in hours what it takes Rioterra or Black Jaguar a year to plant. In all, Black Jaguar has signed contracts with 26 farms and planted 326 hectares (806 acres) to date.

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☆ Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rises in March
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-07 | by ( Steven Grattan | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

SAO PAULO, April 7 (Reuters) - Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest rose 14% in March from the previous year, preliminary official data showed on Friday, highlighting the continued challenges for the new leftist government. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took office on Jan. 1, pledging to end deforestation after years of surging deforestation under his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro, who slashed environmental protection efforts in the Amazon. Space research agency Inpe's data showed 356 square km (137 square miles) were cleared in the Brazil’s Amazon just last month. Washington announced at the beginning of the year it intended to contribute to Brazil's Amazon Fund, which supports conservation projects in the jungle region. Norway also pledged its support last month for Brazil's efforts to attract additional donor countries for the Amazon Fund.

☆ Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon falls in first month under Lula
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Ueslei MarcelinoSAO PAULO, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest fell in January from a year earlier, satellite data showed on Friday, in the first monthly figures under President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. In mid-January, Brazilian environmental agents launched their first anti-logging raids under Lula, who has pledged to end surging destruction under his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro. The fresh figures come after Reuters reported exclusively on Thursday that the United States was considering its first contribution to a multilateral fund aimed at fighting Amazon deforestation, with a possible announcement during President Joe Biden's meeting with Lula at the White House on Friday. The Brazilian-administered Amazon Fund, supported mainly by Norway and Germany, was reactivated by Environment Minister Marina Silva the day she took office last month, after being frozen since 2019 under Bolsonaro. The Brazilian government is also fighting wildcat mining on Yanomami land in the Amazon, its largest indigenous reservation, amid a humanitarian crisis blamed on illegal gold miners.

REUTERS/Amanda PerobelliSAO PAULO/MONTREAL, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Deforestation in Brazil's Cerrado savanna rose to a seven-year high, government data showed on Wednesday, destroying a vital habitat for threatened species and releasing huge amounts of greenhouse gases that drive climate change. Destruction of native vegetation rose 25% to 10,689 square kilometers (4,127 square miles) – an area larger than Lebanon. Brazil's official deforestation statistics run from August to July to minimize clouds obscuring the destruction. The Cerrado, the world's most species-rich savanna, has given way to Brazil's expanding agricultural frontier for decades. "We need COP15 negotiators to prioritise ending deforestation and conversion in areas where the yearly rate of ecosystem losses prove alarming, like the Cerrado."

Brazil has yet to publish its official annual figures for Cerrado deforestation, based on satellite analysis by the government's space research agency Inpe. The Cerrado neighbors the Amazon, occupying more than 2 million square kilometers in central Brazil – larger than Mexico. FARM-DRIVEN DEFORESTATIONThe Brazilian savanna is now a major concern for top grains traders, who have broadly pledged to eliminate deforestation from their supply chains by 2025. The sources discussed Cerrado deforestation data from Brazil's PRODES program, which produces annual data that is far more accurate than rapid alert data published on a weekly and monthly basis. An Inpe official said earlier this year that Brazil would soon stop publishing PRODES Cerrado data due to lack of funding.

SAO PAULO, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest fell in the 12 months through July, according to government data released on Wednesday, retreating from a 15-year high under outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro. The destruction declined 11% from a year earlier to 11,568 square kilometers (4,466 square miles), according to annual data from Brazilian space research agency Inpe. That was still more Amazon deforestation than any year from 2009 to 2020. Ane Alencar, science director at the Amazon Environmental Research Institute, said that there has been no change in Bolsonaro's policy of weakening environmental agencies to explain the drop in deforestation. Those months will instead be reflected in the first annual PRODES data released under Lula in 2023.

☆ One graph shows how Brazil's election could speed up destruction of the Amazon rainforest — and imperil the planet
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Paola Rosa-Aquino | Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro faces former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in a runoff election on October 30. The outcome of the election may determine the fate of the Amazon rainforest. The fate of the Amazon rainforest — the planet's largest — is on the ballot. Under Bolsonaro, Brazil has cleared large swaths of the Amazon rainforest for farmland, accelerating deforestation there. MICHAEL DANTAS/AFP via Getty ImagesAbout 60 percent of the Amazon rainforest is located in Brazil.

[1/4] An aerial view shows a deforested plot of the Amazon rainforest in Manaus, Amazonas State, Brazil July 8, 2022. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly/File PhotoSAO PAULO, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Brazil's presidential election on Sunday may determine the fate of the Amazon jungle, the world's largest rainforest, after deforestation soared in the past four years under President Jair Bolsonaro. Destruction in the Amazon rainforest last year hit the highest level since 2006, according to the government's space research agency INPE. Lula took office in 2003 with levels of Amazon deforestation near all-time highs. By 2010, his last year in office, deforestation had fallen by 72% to near record lows.

☆ Fires in Brazil's Amazon surge in September, worst month since 2010
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Gabriel Araujo | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Smoke from a fire rises into the air as trees burn amongst vegetation in the Brazil's Amazon rainforest, in Apui, Amazonas state, Brazil, September 5, 2021. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly/File PhotoSAO PAULO, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest have surged in September, already making it the worst month in more than a decade, government data showed on Monday, after a jump in deforestation during an election year. Destruction of Brazil's rainforest often picks up in election years, when law enforcement typically ebbs and loggers race ahead with plans ahead of a possible shift in conservation policy. "Fires are not a natural phenomenon in the Amazon rainforest. Data also showed that 1,661 square kilometers (641 square miles) were cleared in the Amazon last month, an 81% increase from the same period in 2021.

☆ Brazilia: Aproape 8.500 de km2 din Pădurea Amazoniană au fost defrişate în 2020
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-08 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +2 min

Situaţia poate fi comparată cu dispariţia în fiecare minut din Pădurea Amazoniană anul trecut a unei suprafeţe împădurite echivalente cu ceva mai mult decât două terenuri de fotbal (1,2 milioane în total), notează AFP. În luna decembrie a anului trecut, 216 kilometri pătraţi au fost defrişaţi, faţă de 190 de kilometri pătraţi în 2019, reprezentând o creştere de 14%. Cele mai devastatoare luni au fost, însă, la fel ca în fiecare an, cele din sezonul uscat, cu 1.658 de kilometri pătraţi defrişaţi în iulie şi 1.358 de kilometri pătraţi despăduriţi în august. Defrişările din Amazonia au doborât toate recordurile în 2019, primul an din mandatul preşedintelui Jair Bolsonaro, cu 9.178 de kilometri pătraţi despăduriţi. Pădurea Amazoniană, considerată vitală pentru combaterea încălzirii globale, având 62% din suprafaţă în Brazilia, şi Pantanal sunt cele mai valoroase ecosisteme din lume.

Persons: Situaţia, Bolsonaro Locations: Brazilia, Jair, Sao Paulo, ţară, Jamaica, Pantanal, Amazoniei

☆ Brazilia: Defrişările din pădurea amazoniană au atins cel mai înalt nivel după 2008
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-01 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

În perioada august 2019 - iulie 2020, 11.088 de kilometri pătraţi de junglă au fost defrişaţi în această regiune, potrivit INPE, ceea ce reprezintă cea mai extinsă suprafaţă eliminată după anul 2008.Această suprafaţă corespunde cu aproximativ 4.340 de terenuri de fotbal pe zi sau cu trei terenuri de fotbal pe minut.Comparativ cu aceeaşi perioadă a anului trecut, defrişările au înregistrat o creştere cu 9,5 procente.Pentru preşedintele Braziliei, Jair Bolsonaro, regiunea reprezintă în primul rând o zonă cu potenţial economic neexploatat, motiv pentru care susţine crearea unor suprafeţe mai mari pentru agricultură, minerit şi producţia de energie. Şeful statului a respins criticile internaţionale privind politica sa de mediu catalogându-le drept interferenţe în treburile interne, notează DPA. "Viziunea de dezvoltare a guvernului Bolsonaro în ceea ce priveşte regiunea amazoniană ne duce înapoi, în trecut, cu rate de defrişare care nu au mai fost atinse din 2008", a declarat Cristiane Mazzetti de la organizaţia pentru protecţia mediului Greenpeace. "Aceasta este o viziune retrogradă, care nu este pe placul majorităţii brazilienilor şi constituie o nedreptate la adresa efortu

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Oamenii de știință spun că pădurea amazoniană a suferit pierderi într-un ritm accelerat de când Jair Bolsonaro a preluat funcția de președinte al țării, în ianuarie 2019. Președintele brazilian a încurajat activitățile agricole și miniere în cea mai mare pădure tropicală din lume. Amazonul găzduiește aproximativ trei milioane de specii de plante și animale și un milion de indigeni. Brazilia își propusese să încetinească ritmul defrișărilor până la 3 900 km pătrați anual până în 2020. În plus față de încurajarea dezvoltării în pădurea tropicală, președintele Bolsonaro a redus, de asemenea, finanțarea agențiilor federale care au puterea de a amenda și aresta fermierii și exploatatorii forestieri care încalcă legea.

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☆ "Легкие" Земли в опасности! В Амазонии вырубка лесов достигла угрожающих размеров
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-01 | by ( Mld Media Srl | ) noi.md time to read: +3 min

Согласно официальным данным, опубликованным в понедельник, 30 ноября, Национальным институтом космических исследований Бразилии (INPE), вырубка лесов в Амазонии достигла самого высокого уровня за двенадцать лет. Это на 9,5% больше, чем в период предыдущих измерений (с августа 2018 по август 2019), которое тоже считалось рекордным за последние десять лет, передает rfi.fr. В период правления ультраправого президента Бразилии Жаира Болсонару вырубка лесов и лесные пожары в Бразилии резко увеличились. Такая политика способствует разрушению Амазонии – крупнейшего в мире тропического леса, около 60% которого находится в Бразилии. Избранный президент США Джо Байден в период предвыборной кампании в октябре пригрозил Бразилии «значительными экономическими последствиями», если вырубка лесов в Амазонии продолжится.

Persons: Жаир Болсонару, Болсонару, Болсонар, Кристиан Маццетти, Амилтон Моуран, Джо Байден Organizations: Национальный институт космических исследований, Климатическая обсерватория, НКО, Гринпис Locations: Бразилия, Амазония, Франция, Амазонка, США

☆ Calamităţi naturale produse în 2019 în întreaga lume: uragane, temperaturi extreme, inundaţii şi incendii de proporţii
▼ + stars: | 2019-12-31 | by ( ) tvrmoldova.md time to read: +13 min

Temperaturi de aproximativ 6 grade Celsius s-au înregistrat în această iarnă la Moscova, un record pentru luna decembrie. Cea mai călduros loc din Australia a fost înregistrat în oraşul Ceduna din sudul Australiei, unde temperatura a fost de 46,5 grade Celsius, potrivit Biroului de Meteorologie. Estul Australiei s-a confruntat cu incendii devastatoare în ultimele trei luni, potrivit oamenilor de ştiinţă, din cauza secetei prelungite şi a încălzirii globale. Printre ţările afectate s-au numărat şi Venezuela, cu 26.000 de incendii de vegetaţie, Bolivia, cu peste 17.000, Columbia şi Peru. În urma seismului, 51 de persoane au fost ucise, 10 persoane sunt în continuare date dispărute, 750 de oameni au fost răniţi, 100.

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