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Brazil: Climate conditions determine Amazon fire risk

2013-06-07 21:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: Using an innovative satellite technique, NASA scientists have determined that a previously unmapped type of wildfire in the Amazon rainforest is responsible for destroying several times more forest than has been lost through deforestation in recent years. In the southern Amazon rainforest, fires below the forest treetops, or "understory fires," have been hidden from view from NASA satellites that detect actively burning fires. The new method has now led to the first regional estimate of understory...

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