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Brazil’s Amazon has burned this badly before. This year’s fires are still bad

An environmental scientist discusses possible impacts from the fires

Amazon fire

Smoke from thousands of fires burning in the Amazon can be seen by satellites in space. This image was captured over the Brazilian rainforest on August 22.

NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS)

By Gloria Dickie

- More than 2 years ago

The Amazon rainforest in Brazil is being ravaged by fire.