Brazil: plant area burned by fires jumped 79% in 2024
The plant area destroyed by fires in Brazil increased by 79% in 2024 to 30.8 million hectares, higher than that of Italy, according to a report from the monitoring platform MapBiomas published on Wednesday.
This is the largest area burned in the Latin American country in one year since 2019.
The Amazon, a gigantic natural region with a crucial ecosystem for climate regulation, was the most affected with some 17.9 million hectares ravaged, or 58% of the total, and more than all the areas burned in the whole country in 2023, specifies the study.
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