“As an ecological disaster in the Amazon escalated into a global political crisis, Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, took the rare step on Friday of mobilising the armed forces to help contain blazes of a scale not seen in nearly a decade,” reports the New York Times: The sudden reversal, after days of dismissing growing concern over hundreds of fires raging across…
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Smoke from Burning Amazon Turns São Paulo Afternoon into Midnight
There’s so much smoke from wildfires in the Amazon rainforest that São Paulo plunged into darkness on Monday afternoon (Aug. 19), with day turning into night. Source: https://www.livescience.com/amazon-rainforest-burning-fire.html